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African Architecture and Design
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110 students

African Architecture and Design

The Design, Culture and Architecture of Africa
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 8/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • In this course students will learn how to value and appreciate African Architecture and Design
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 41m total length

  • Introduction2:11

    Explore African architecture and design across the rainforest, Himba villages, Masai herdsmen, Egyptian temples, and Berber architecture of Morocco, and contribute to conserving world cultural heritage.

  • African Architecture Lecture 26:30

    Embark on a site-based expedition across Africa to trace the origins of architecture and design, traveling by foot and canoe through West Africa's dense jungles and the Congo River regions.

  • African Architecture Lecture 35:41

    Explore African rainforest architecture from Cameroon, Congo, and beyond, featuring circular floor plans, hemisphere-inspired huts, and arches built from bent branches for sustainable, recyclable design.

  • African Architecture Lecture 45:43

    Explore the Himba architecture of Namibia: a fast, women-built dwelling coated with clay and dung, using a post-and-beam frame to provide shade, privacy, and portable skin protection.

  • African Architecture Lecture 58:41

    Examine Cameroon and Chad architectures, featuring conical and gothic arches that transfer weight, water-draining patterns, and village-centered compounds with residential barns, doors, and intricate lintels.

  • African Architecture Lecture 68:19

    Explore Dogon cliff dwellings in Mali and Burkina Faso, where adobe bricks, sun-dried walls, and anthropomorphic columns define a unique cliffside architecture tied to ritual life.

  • African Architecture Lecture 76:12

    Explore fortified mud houses of northern Ghana, where Cobb houses form enclosed compounds with black-and-white geometric frescoes painted by women, revealing functional yet striking architecture tied to local clay.

  • African Architecture Lecture 88:15

    Explore the African village architectural ecology, focusing on central courtyards, compounds, and circular huts that provide privacy, safety, and space for ceremonies across Zimbabwe, Sudan, and West Africa.

  • African Architecture Lecture 97:09

    Explore Maasai architecture and design, highlighting portable semi-nomadic buildings, ornate clothing and shields, and masks that reflect cattle wealth and cultural artistry.

  • African Architecture Lecture 1032:22

    Explore the temple of Horus at it for as a readable prototype of egyptian temples, with pylons, hypostyle hall, courtyards, and a sacred inner sanctuary, illustrating Horus' royal cult.

  • African Architecture Lecture 114:51

    Explore Berber architecture, from camel hair tents with horseshoe arches to carpet interiors that reflect the people and place in an authentic village with abandoned, decaying spaces.

  • Course Catalog5:32

    Explore the African architecture and design course catalog; it's about and thanks, in this course.

Requirements

  • There are no Prerequisites for this course.

Description

This course is on African Architecture and Design. In African Architecture and Design are the roots of all architecture and design. This course is designed as an expedition of exploration of these roots. The purpose of this course is to disseminate and increase the awareness and knowledge about this quickly disappearing cultural treasure. And, that this may contribute to its preservation. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone interested in learning how to appreciate and conserve African Architecture and Design.

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