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V&A's Tropical Modernism exhibition explores "the politics behind the concrete"

Deezen

Nkrumah, who sometimes sketched designs for the buildings he wanted on napkins, created the first architecture school in sub-Saharan Africa to train a new generation of African architects, and this institution has partnered with us on a five-year research project into tropical modernism."

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Architectural Education Will Change Because The Way Architects Work Will Change

EntreArchitect

Every potential client who architects serve under 40 has created a software derived sketch. Take those tools and multiply their capacities by 1,000 in the coming decades, and architecture changes. I believe architectural education needs to train architects to recognize and harness our innate desire to create.