New Alternative Nigerian Architecture (NANA): Reclaiming Identity through Context and Material
Adyeyemo Shokunbi, ARCON, MNIA
This will be a hybrid event in G18, 19-23 Abercromby Square and online
The talk explores NANA – the New Alternative Nigerian Architecture — a philosophy and movement that seeks to reframe Nigerian architecture through cultural consciousness, local materiality, and contextual design.
Drawing from Adeyemo Shokunbi’s Aga Khan nominated-Abijo mosque, his MadHouse project at the University of Lagos to his studio teaching, NANA challenges imported paradigms and repositions architecture as a language that reflects tone, relationship, and context – much like Yoruba itself.
From the Abijo Mosque to live-build projects and teaching experiments, this lecture traces a journey of rediscovery that invites architects everywhere to reflect on belonging, authorship, and the future of architecture rooted in place.
Given by Adyeyemo Shokunbi, ARCON, MNIA
This will be a hybrid event in G18, 19-23 Abercromby Square and online
Please register here: http://bit.ly/3L9fwK0
For further information contact: nura.ali@liverpool.ac.uk
Liverpool School of Architecture,
University of Liverpool
25 Abercromby
Square, Liverpool L69 7ZN