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Author: Paolo Cascone
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Imprint: Actar Publishers
ISBN: 9781948765626
ISBN 10: 1948765624
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 28 February 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""The writer Paolo Cascone looks at the causes-effect relations of architectural and urban projects that impact the new phenomenon inspired by traditional and informal African practices and architectures. The 208-page book, published by Actar, compiles essays, conversations and paradigmatic projects ""conceived as an adaptive platform on synthetic-vernacular architecture in Africa and its potential role as cultural driver for global scenarios."" The book was published after an almost ten years of applied research by Paolo Cascone and his CODESIGNLAB practice in Africa. The book mainly deals with these questions: ""How to respond to climatic changes reconciling nature with tekné? What is the social role of technology? How architects would reconsider their practices supporting community-oriented projects?."""" --World Architecture Community
Author Information
Paolo Cascone, born in italy (1976) and grew up between west indies and east africa, Paolo is graduated in architecture in naples and started his research between ecological design, digital fabrication and self-construction during his master at the architectural association (london-uk) in sustainable design and continued it while accomplishing a PhD in environmental engineering at the university of rome. in the past few years paolo has developed interdisciplinary projects with international firms and built case studies between europe and africa. he has been teaching as associate professor at the ENSA Paris / malaquais and at the ecole speciale d'architecture of paris where he founded CODESIGNLAB. paolo has been lecturing in schools of architecture around the world such as Sci-Arc / los angeles, etsam / madrid, rensselaer polytechnic / new york, AHO / oslo, insa / strasbourg, TU berlin, ETHZ zurich, IUAV / venice etc. in 2014 has participated to both biennale of marrakech and dakar with the african fabbers project. his work has been exhibited at among the others: the design museum of Munich, the XXIst triennale di milano, the Triennale of social design of Liege etc. paolo has published his projects on international reviews such as architecture d'aujourd hui, mark, domus, abitare, A+U etc. he is scientific director of the african fabbers school: the first school of urban ecologies, self-construction and digital fabrication in africa. He is now senior lecturer senior lecturer in architectural & environmental design at the university of westminster of london.
