Abstract
Seminal publications on West African Architecture such as Kulterman’s New Architecture in Africa and the Architectural Review’s New Commonwealth Architecture came to define the African Modern Movement as it was understood internationally. This paper explores the specific context within which this new architecture developed and the actors that helped to shape it. Vaughan–Richards’ Ola–Oluwakitan House and Cubitt’s Elder Dempster Offices are analyzed in terms of their engagement with the socio-cultural context in which they were conceived, the site-specific Modernity of the former contrasting the corporate International Style response of the latter.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Tropical architecture, Design with climate, African modern architecture, Alan Vaughan-Richards, Ola–Oluwakitan Cottage, James Cubitt, Elder Dempster Offices, Nigerian modern architecture.

Issue 48
Year 2013
Pages 62-69
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/48.A.8ZFOUFGC