[spectre] Fwd: CFP: AFRAUHN, African Architectural and Urban History Network (Nairobi, 8-10 Sep 26)

[Andreas Broeckmann LEU]

From: Eva Branscome
Date: Mar 5, 2026
Subject: CFP: AFRAUHN Nairobi (Nairobi, 8-10 Sep 26)

Kenya, University of Nairobi, Sep 8–10, 2026
Deadline: Apr 3, 2026

The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN), in 
collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of 
Nairobi, invites proposals for papers about emerging discourses and 
themes in African architectural and urban practices for a major 
international conference being held at the University of Nairobi from 
8th September – 10th September 2026.

It will be the second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference, the first having 
taken place at the Wits School of Architecture and Planning in South 
Africa in July 2024. Recognizing that discourses about African 
architecture and urban planning are more complex than the bifurcated 
‘traditional’/‘colonial’ or ‘African’/‘Western’ models which still tend 
to dominate the research, writing, environmental design and spatial 
design practices in the continent, this conference instead welcomes 
contributions that critically examine the status quo(s) of these models 
and disciplines – be that in terms of academic, practice, national 
institutions or regulatory bodies, or as are imagined by policy-makers 
in forms of urban development which are then disseminated to the public.

AFRAUHN NAIROBI is organized to coincide with the inaugural Pan-African 
Biennale of Architecture, curated by Omar Degan and team, and which is 
also being held in September 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya: 
https://www.panafricanbiennale.org

AFRAUHN NAIROBI conference sessions include:

SESSION 1: Reclaiming Regional Identity in Kenyan Architecture
SESSION 2: Architectural Education in Africa: When the Curriculum Leans 
Towards a Eurocentric Body of Knowledge
SESSION 3: Writing African Architectural History?
SESSION 4: Shifting the Ground for Thinking the Historiographies of 
African Architecture and Urbanism
SESSION 5: What happened to Tropical Architecture?
SESSION 6: Constructing Coloniality: Nodes of Imperialism and the East 
African Built Environment
SESSION 7: Design Research in African Architectural and Urban History

We invite abstracts of a minimum of 300 words and maximum of 500 words 
for this groundbreaking international conference to be hosted at the 
University of Nairobi, Kenya. Please submit your details and abstracts 
by Friday 3rd April 2026.

For further information on the AFRAUHN NAIROBI conference and how to 
submit proposals, please visit this weblink:
https://www.afrauhn.org/items/call-for-papers-afrauhn-nairobi


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: AFRAUHN Nairobi (Nairobi, 8-10 Sep 26). In: ArtHist.net, Mar 5, 
2026. <https://arthist.net/archive/51887>.