[Applied] Foreign Affairs: Investigating Spatial Phenomena in Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa - Paperback

by Baerbel Mueller (Editor)

[a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach.
This publication documents three projects that were carried out between 2011 and 2015. GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING in northern Ghana, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE at Ghana's Atlantic coast, and LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR of Congo. The book illustrates the projects' creative processes and contexts, embedded in contemporary discourses - well-known experts from architecture, art, theory, and urban sociology take a stand.

Author Biography

Baerbel Mueller, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna