Investigating the African City: Rem Koolhaas, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, and Others

The African continent and its manifestations appear in international exhibitions of art,receive broad coverage in prominent international magazines, and have become an establishedtopic of scholarly research across fields of study.1 Especially in spatial disciplines, suchas architecture and urban planning, the sub-Saharan metropolis has occupied a special positionas laboratory of Western ideas about urban space. Recently, Remment Koolhaas, PritzkerArchitecture Prize Laureate in 2000, has focused his interests on the city of Lagos, in Nigeria,as part of his Harvard Project on the City (HPC). Following his example, numerous otherEuropean and American architects have developed courses on the African metropolis, amongthem Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates in 2001,who have concentrated their attention on the Kenyan city of Nairobi.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6