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The Alliance

Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

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     Africa Alliance is a hub of urban scholars, practitioners, and educators whose work relates to the African continent as both a geographical and an epistemic location. We study buildings, cities, and landscapes on the continent and the many ways in which urbanization processes in Africa relate to other territories. We see Africa as a vantage point to rethink and respond to today’s unprecedented challenges of urbanization: social, economic, and environmental.  
 UMAPS
African Studies Center
TV Lab
Unilever Archives
Accra Metropolitan Assembly
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology


Topics of Focus


Archival Justice

How to uncover and preserve primary material on African architecture, and make it available to scholars and local communities


Unformalization

Moving beyond the dominant formal/informal dichotomy through which the built environment is typically studied 


Land Imaginaries

How to rethink architecture in Africa based on land, its economies, and ecologies


Oblique Histories

How Africa’s exchanges beyond Western Europe and North America are resources of conceptual and design innovations


The Sociopolitics of the Built Environment

Examining social class, belonging, and exclusion in and through architecture and urbanism in Africa











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