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Schools of Architecture & Africa Gwendolen M. Carter For over 25 years the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida has organized annual lectures or a conference in honor of the late distinguished Africanist scholar, Gwendolen M. Carter. Gwendolen Carter devoted her career to scholarship and advocacy concerning the politics of inequality and injustice, especially in southern Africa. She also worked hard to foster the development of African Studies as an academic enterprise. She was perhaps best known for her pioneering study The Politics of Inequality: South Africa Since 1948 and the co-edited four-volume History of African Politics in South Africa, From Protest to Challenge (1972-1977). In the spirit of her career, the annual Carter lectures offer the university community and the greater public the perspectives of Africanist scholars on issues of pressing importance to the peoples and soci- eties of Africa. Since 2004, the Center has (with the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences) appointed Carter Faculty Fellows to serve as conveners of the conference. Schools of Architecture | Afirca: Connecting Disciplines in Design + Development 1 The Center For African Studies The Center for African Studies is in the including: languages, the humanities, the social development of international linkages. It College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the sciences, agriculture, business, engineering, is the only National Resource Center for University of Florida. As a National Resource education, fine arts, environmental studies and Africa located in the southeastern US, and Center for African Studies, our mission is to conservation, journalism, and law. A number the only one in a sub-tropical zone. promote excellence in teaching and research of faculty members with appointments wholly The Center thus plays a pivotal role on Africa in all the disciplines at the University or partially within the Center have facilitated in addressing issues critical for under- of Florida. The Center also disseminates the development of a core curriculum in standing Africa in the global context. At knowledge about Africa to the wider commu- African Studies in support of the undergraduate a time when the University of Florida is nity through an integrated outreach program minor and graduate certificate programs. expanding its international dimension, a to schools, colleges, community groups, and A full-time Outreach Director oversees major component of the Center for African businesses. Central to this mission is sustaining an active program that provides ongoing Studies’ mission is to work with the rest of contacts and expanding interactive linkages training opportunities for K-12 teachers the University in promoting Africa-related with individuals and institutions on the African and educators from postsecondary insti- programs on the campus and beyond. continent. In addition to undergraduate educa- tutions as well as outreach for business, tion, the Center promotes and supports graduate media, and community groups. studies as essential for the development of a CAS is funded in part by the U.S. continuing community of Africanist scholars. Department of Education Title VI The Center has over 100 affiliated teaching National Resource Center program which and research faculty in a wide variety of fields, supports research, teaching, outreach, and School of Architecture, College of Design, Construction and Planning Gainesville enjoys the presence of one year professional graduate degree and PhD from Schools of Architecture across Africa of the largest and best architecture schools programs sustain and energize critical practice to join our conversation about the education in the country. The 4-year undergraduate and teaching in the state of Florida and beyond. of the architect and to consider our collec- program provides an intimate and multi- The school has a deeply considered curric- tive influence on the built environment. modal environment, a dynamic think-tank ulum, both coordinated and experimental. Every of creativity, reflection, and problem solving. term faculty pick work from all levels to exhibit This program has for over 50 years chan- in the gallery as a register of accomplishment, neled record numbers of critical thinkers and of questions asked, and proposals offered. This designers into the top architecture schools is used as the forum for planning the next term. and practices around the world. The 2 and 3 We are delighted to welcome representatives 2 2015 Gwendolen M. Carter Conference Schools of Architecture | Africa: Connecting Disciplines in Design & Development This interdisciplinary conference employs against the backdrop of an earlier history of points; and Street as Studio, which explores the combined lens of architecture and anthro- architecture-based development interventions, popular influences on the built environment. pology to explore the changing form of Africa’s from planned cities, refugee camps and resettle- The closing roundtable probes the theme of built environment across the continent today. ment zones, to schools, markets, and affordable Afro-Cosmopolitanism—Building Networks of Our meeting is premised on the claim that housing schemes – also to be examined in the Architecture Expertise. In addition to learning Africa’s architectural landscape in the opening conference. As in the present moment, they too from our panel and roundtable participants, we decades of the twenty-first century is marked were tied up with global transfers of resources, include a ‘Pecha Kucha’ forum highlighting the by a series of notable innovations and realign- expertise, materials, values and design templates work of UF College of Design, Construction ments. Namely, architecture is emerging as and the longer legacy of architecture as a field and Planning, Department of Anthropology, and the center-piece of development design. This of practice by and for elites. Taking stock of Center for African Studies faculty and students. is a function of unprecedented capital and this common heritage of European colonial An additional highlight, further embodying population mobility, urban growth, climatic and post-colonial influence and more recently, a the cross-disciplinary nature of this year’s Carter and cultural shifts, and transfers of knowledge host of Chinese-built and funded architectural Conference, the UF Architecture Building gallery, and technology that reposition the agents and projects, architecture schools and professionals where the conference is being held, features the endpoints of development around large-scale in Africa are now making a self-conscious move exhibition “African Cross-Currents: Architectural and sustainable improvement in standards of in a new direction attuned to the promise of Observations and Imaginaries.” The show living and structures of opportunity. With the international partnerships yet driven by on-the- encompasses architectural drawings, project character of the built environment decisive ground conditions and priorities and wary of designs, and photography of Carter conference to these agendas, the reworking of infrastruc- the lingering positioning of Africa as laboratory participants and invited guests. In conjunction ture, landscape, public spaces, and building for better endowed actors and institutions. with the Carter conference Professors Chalfin types in a wide array of African cities, regions, In the spirit of inter-disciplinary and and Cohen are co-teaching a seminar on African and rural communities is currently in train. international collaboration and education, Architecture and student work will be included. Integral to these trends, and our confer- Schools of Architecture|Africa examines The students will be drawing on anthropological ence concerns, is a continent-wide effort to these themes through a series of conference research methods to intensively document expand architectural education. Architecture panels, round tables, ‘Pecha Kucha’ forum, the conference in order to capture the ‘real- schools and practicing architects are acutely gallery exhibit and two distinguished lectures time’ unfolding of architectural and develop- aware of their role in educating students along involving architects, scholars, educators and ment paradigms and professional networks. with citizens, government officials, donors, development planners and activists from the We invite you to reflect on and take part and investors about the importance of the US, Europe and a range of African coun- in these discussions, activities, and engage- built environment in relation to develop- tries and institutions, in addition to members ments and welcome your comments and ment ideals. These efforts increasingly draw of the UF community. Support for these contributions to this collaborative endeavor. attention to the merits and possibilities of endeavors is the outcome of unprecedented popular and vernacular architectures, commu- partnership of UF’s College of Liberal Arts Brenda Chalfin Professor of Anthropology nity participation, and the mobilization of and Sciences, College of Design, Construction + indigenous materials, construction techniques and Planning, Office of Research and US Donna Cohen Associate Professor of Architecture and design-solutions to enhance and enable Department of Education Title VI sponsorship. development outcomes. By no means are these Kicking off our program, Joe Osae Addo, inward-looking, strictly nationalist or nativist Ghana-based Architect and Chairman of agendas. Rather, they are bound-up with
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