African cities and rapid urbanisation - Unpacking the legacy of modernist trajectories

Open lecture by Tomà Berlanda on African cities and rapid urbanisation, part of WAT - E3020 State of the World and Development.

You're warmly welcome to join us for a lecture by Tomà Berlanda, Director and Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, on 

African cities and rapid urbanisation - Unpacking the legacy of modernist trajectories

at Otakaari 4, Room 216 (Mechanical engineering).

Tomà Berlanda is an architect born in Venice with extensive international academic and professional experience. He holds a Diploma in Architecture from the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland (2002) and a PhD in Architecture and Building Design from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2009). Since 2015 he has been Director and Professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, where he pursues his research interests focusing on the implications that can be drawn from a non-stereotypical reading of the African city and the practice of architecture in non-Western urban settings and landscapes. Prior to this, he was co-founder of asa studio in Kigali (2012-14), where he led an extensive design and build campaign to provide community-based early childhood and health facilities across Rwanda. The award-winning work has been published widely, and included in the exhibitions Afritecture: Building Social Change (2013) and Africa: Architecture, Culture and Identity (2015).