James Inedu-George is an architect and Design Director of HTL practising out of Nigeria and South Africa, where his immediate focus is on Innovative Sustainable Solutions and Future African Cities. He is a nominee for the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé architecture initiative
James Inedu-George
In 2003 he started investigating how a sustainable architectural language may emerge from the chaos in Lagos. This research culminated in a $10,000 house which manipulated the intrinsic and extrinsic issues in architecture to create employment and provide new income stream that sustains life-style of its otherwise poor occupants. By 2008 he setup the 7-man, research-based innovation practice, HTL Nigeria, producing theory and building work in West Africa; some of which include: A new Fourth Mainland Bridge (published in ArchiAfrika, September 2011) and ‘Lagos: An Absence of Systems’ (exhibited at Goethe Institut (Lagos, 2009). His current interests revolve on the multilayering of City Space and how the infrastructure of the city can be invaded and interrupted with architecture. He has been teaching about the possibilities that can emanate from the present conditions in Africa. His lecture, which will be called Towards a New Core, will deal with the creation of a tabula rasa in his native Africa that can serve as a spring board for the creation of a new Architecture. This new Architecture will be a product of the study of the happenings that emanate from our cities including demographics and economics.
