Architects and development specialists often live in different worlds and it is difficult to create a publicawareness for the development dimension of innovative architecture. This special issue of the ATDF Journal aims to change this by bringing the two worlds closer together showing a variety of innovative projects and discussing their impact on African development in general and sustainable urbanization and local entrepreneurship in particular.
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Contents
Editorial
Philippe Block
Tile Vaulted Systems for Low-cost Construction in Africa
Philippe Block, Matthew DeJong, Lara Davis, John Ochsendorf
Design and Construction of the Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Centre, South Africa
Michael H. Ramage, John Ochsendorf, Peter Rich, James K. Bellamy, Philippe Block
The Problem and Potential of Sustainable Design in Resource Poor Settings: Cases from Rwanda
Michael Murphy and Mallory Taub
NESTown: New Ethiopian Sustainable Town – A Real Life Experiment
Franz Oswald & Peter Schenker
Sustainable urbanization: The missing bottom-up dimension
Philipp Aerni