Kéré Architecture   Kenya   On the shores of one of the African Great Lakes, a center devoted to new technologies offers training and job opportunities, endeavoring to put a halt to the exodus of young entrepreneurs. Finding inspiration in the region’s abundance of mounds built

Architectopia   Kenya   The construction of two preschool classrooms completes an educational complex that has managed to thrive in a Kenyan village thanks to successive charity efforts and local initiative. For the raising of the two rectangular volumes, the project involv

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   Kenya   Located in the Kenyan village of Kogelo, where Barack Obama’s father was born, the Mama Sarah Obama Legacy Campus will be an educational enclave for a thousand students and preschool-age children in danger of being marginalized. The project presents

Selgascano   Kenya   One problem with cooperation projects in underdeveloped areas is that design strategies – and also the social and ideological premises that determine them – tend to seem strange to the communities which the buildings are ultimately supposed to serve.

Orkidstudio    Kenya   The process of designing and constructing this orphanage in itself served as an instrument for local development, through the passing on of building skills.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Alhambra of Granada was the backdrop of the awarding of the Aga Khan architectural prizes, which throw an unexpected light on the Islamic world.