Ghanaian architect, Kuukuwa Manful, hopes her work re-evaluate the discourse and study of African architecture: ‘I hope my work reframes how we talk about and study architecture across the continent through a concept I call unformalization. I am looking to challenge dichotomies around formal and informal architecture by arguing that many African architectures were deliberately unformalized.’
First Draft is our interview column, featuring authors and other prominent figures on books, reading, and writing.
Our questions are italicized.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
I read anything I could lay my hands on—beginning with storybooks and moving on to fantasy fiction, romance novels and biographies. Occasionally this eclectic collection even included some not-very age-appropriate texts such as The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka and Kitty Kelley’s Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorised Biography...