African Houses

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PAT completes off-grid Kenyan holiday home with raised bedrooms

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Tembo Tembo lodge hides among landscape of South African game reserve

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Marc Thorpe designs Dakar Houses for Moroso furniture makers in Senegal

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ARRCC builds “afro-minimalist” safari lodge in South African wildlife reserve

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Phillip Lühl uses “bagged concrete bricks” to build two extensions to a Namibia house

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Nkabom House is a prototypical Ghanaian home made from mud and waste plastic

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Slot windows offer starry views from Swartberg House by Openstudio Architects

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Urban-Think Tank develops housing prototype for South African slums

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Sand-bag houses by MMA architects 4

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Sand-bag houses by MMA Architects 3

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Chris van Niekerk installs minimalist house in Cape Town’s Steenberg mountains

Dezeen x Gaggenau Architecture Project Talks

Watch our Architecture Project Talk about Coral Pavilion by CmDesign Atelier

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Urban-Think Tank develops low-cost housing for South African slum

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Timber and granite residence by Studio Seilern stands on a rocky ledge above an African dam

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Pearl Bay Residence provides ocean views from South African coast

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Hewn sandstone walls and an overhanging roof enclose a hillside home in Nairobi

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Fobe House by Guilhem Eustache

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Ecolodge by Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix

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Sand-bag houses by MMA Architects 2

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Sand-bag houses by MMA Architects