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JOIN US! Nka projects seek project partners, sponsors, and volunteers. We are issuing a challenge to builders, architecture professors and architects worldwide who know how architecture is localized, uses the means and the materials available in the site to create a friendly building to the environment. If you are a university professor or a practitioner who finds substance in our cause, you are welcome to use one of our sites for a one-time workshop or an annual event. Mud architecture is a tradition that has worked worldwide and still does. In nearly all West African countries, it is giving way to modern building materials and methods because it is viewed as architecture for the poor....
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Join us at DESIGN-BUILD WORKSHOPS IN GHANA: Building With Local Earth

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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area United States
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Project Director at Nka Foundation (DESIGNING FOR THE ARTS: 3rd Earth Architecture Competition)
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Photography / Arts
Website
http://www.nkafoundation.org
About
JOIN US! Nka projects seek project partners, sponsors, and volunteers. We are issuing a challenge to builders, architecture professors and architects worldwide who know how architecture is localized, uses the means and the materials available in the site to create a friendly building to the environment. If you are a university professor or a practitioner who finds substance in our cause, you are welcome to use one of our sites for a one-time workshop or an annual event. Mud architecture is a tradition that has worked worldwide and still does. In nearly all West African countries, it is giving way to modern building materials and methods because it is viewed as architecture for the poor....
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africa architecture ashanti building green buildin mud vernacular competition vernacular architecture ghana internships projects abroad sustainable africa open source design earth building workshops sustainable architecture ashanti earth building socially responsible design building local design-build building green architecture design rammed earth
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