The next generation of African architects and designers | Christian Benimana

[@chigasaki06]

African designers/architects are definitely needed. Many buildings constructed in various African countries are basically replicas of the West, which are not functional/efficient for the African landscape. They don't take advantage of uniquely African materials and designs that are harmonious with the environment.

[@susuilu]

you said everything very well!!! i keep saying, architects and contractors have to take advantage of the ancient architectural designs we used to have in Africa, because those were functional and didnt need any outside workers to accomplish that. Those buildings were the solution to all problems and everyone had a roof over their head. once that is sorted, economic growth will happen

[@_MotivationManifesto]

Bruh ... 2021 im on KZbin searching for African buildings... And there is not enough!!!

[@fideltuda4678]

@@_MotivationManifesto not enough or they are barely any.

[@CUBETechie]

Biomimicry should be the achieving

[@milky8471]

Yeah I wanna work on it do badd

[@AbdallahBotan]

Africa is the future, but this time it will be led by Africans. CB From Somalia

[@osemudiame123]

Working on becoming an African electrical engineer. Once I’m done studying in Scotland I’ll be heading back to Africa. There I’ll try to make a difference.

[@leveljoe]

Pride in your country is never a wasted effort. Work hard and be successful, be the role model for the next generation.

[@mattsilva9267]

Wishing you a lot of success in your life! Never stop working hard!

[@OneInTheRiver]

DO U NO DE WAE TO UGANDA?!

[@leveljoe]

Han Swolo stat ta dug. Dug til I tells' youins ta stop.

[@dylanbuchman8128]

Star Sloth I'm sure you are putting your many skills to so much better use than architectural design for a part of the world that needs it the most 💁‍♂️ please enlighten us

[@meepchiche001]

Africa finding its own identity is an amazing time to live in.

[@cookbaby3176]

Omg isn’t it, new finding everyday 🤩

[@ivorobotnikt6090]

black people should not be talking to white people about this at all

[@user-qb4rb3bp6u]

No, the rest of the world is finally opening its eyes

[@aodhanofailain]

Mr Benimana’s insightful talk raises several issues that are critical to the future of humanity and our planet. For me, it’s not so much a case of Africa and China ought not to be following Western building models and values, rather that the West ought not to be following Western building models and values, indeed, no one should be following current Western building models and values. We need carbon-free, nature-friendly, highly localised, community-based, sustainable, and resilient architecture, and we need it in a hurry. Mr Benimana is right; African architects are leading the world in this regard, but the rest of us need to follow their inspiration as a matter of urgency.

[@Raziffalyan]

This is exactly what I always wanted for the world's cities, so that different cities in the world has its own distinct features. You can always know whether you're in Paris or Firenze or London or Oslo or Bali.. because they have their own distinct architectural style used in many buildings. I don't quite agree with what Bandung's governor (who's also an architect) Ridwan Kamil said about modern architecture (you can see it on Ted Talk too) I think it's essential to make cities' architecture distinct and unique from one another. It adds up to the experience visiting it.

[@hurricanefierce]

This.... I have no words. Amazing video, amazing people, amazing continent.

[@francisorih396]

how much i love people with good education both technically and morally!

[@Ceci-db8kh]

You guys are already globally inspiring, my guy, I'm saying this as a brazilian architecture student who's already a fan of what you guys are doing there. Keep it up!

[@gaolatlhe]

Africa needs to embrace it's identity and diversity be it food, culture or architecture. We have a lot to offer

[@JeanLouis1966]

Dear Architect Christian Benimana. I'm proud of you, I'm excited how clearly your message is traveling. I wish you the best on your journey. I'm challenging you to connect with your Brothers & Sisters from the Trade in Africa and network, network, network. You studied in China, you can mentor many others on that journey.. Blessings. J-L L. K

[@Wolfblaz13]

All memes aside, he's brilliant. More innovators are what Africa needs.

[@manlynash6302]

I am ever so grateful for finding this video. Thank you Christian for the expose. Trust me a door has now opened for me to go back to Mother Africa to start and indeed fund a whole housing project with 100% input from my own kind. HalleluYah, HalleluYah, HalleluYah.

[@zephaniarutlokwana2891]

Go African youth Go. Show the world that you have come a long way and you are here to be reckoned. Make your parents and ancestry proud of you

[@Josh-sh6sq]

As a student in high school in Africa, Christian inspires young potential architects like me. Preach brother preach.

[@Spiritman96]

You have made me a much proud Ugandan architecture student..... I have a saying that " ONE CANT KNOW WHERE HE IS GOING IF HE CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE HE CAME FROM". So, for all African Architects to know where they are heading to, they ought to know where they came from. GOD BLESS YOU BRO FRO THAT MESSEGE.

[@tobangafeufeu]

Best of luck to everyone working on this

[@jemts5586]

Yes! I loved this talk! I hope to see more Africans and people from the African diaspora heading back to contribute to developments like these. It's exciting to think what could grow here! :)

[@alexgarcia5907]

This kind of architects are the future, they have amazing ideas.

[@keelan3332]

Reading through these comments is so sad. It was an inspiring speech, and those designs are honestly so cool.

[@felixlynch7327]

I wonder how much western aid they are going to spend on these, or shall I say waste.

[@OneInTheRiver]

Eating food is so cool

[@mw3ballerhoodskillz]

funny how you talk about Western Aid when your whole country was built off of the labour of Africans

[@Bocbo]

DJ Khaled No... it wasn't.

[@arrocoda3590]

DJ Khaled 5 % of the economy during slavery was from actual slave labor sorry America was built on the backs of white men

[@DuluthTW]

Wonderful presentation. I see architecture in a new way now. Thank you!

[@teisithulo1975]

me too

[@abdelrahimhajelnour7682]

I loooooove Africa

[@HaileISela]

this is a truly beautiful way to build. wonderful concept with the playgrounds... you could also add a forest garden or permaculture, that would fit it well!

[@sandykd8800]

I love Africa, keep moving forward. GOD bless Africa 😊🙏🏾

[@mazarisam259]

I love your speech.... I hope we can make it someday

[@Geodendronitrian]

Mazar Isam We will.

[@GeoffreyCavalier]

This was incredible. Every group of people needs architects, and to get that started is the probably the hardest thing. It will be an incredibly difficult challenge, but he is probably starting in the best place.

[@newjerseylion4804]

This cool fusion indigenous Africa building methods to modern architecture

[@elbekgafurov5379]

Great Speech ! Bravo ! Good luck!

[@Lunareon]

Once the momentum from projects like this starts building up, everything will happen faster. Can't wait to see the results! :)

[@ubuntumike5794]

When you guys plan those buildings build them to adapt African we like the sunshine build buildings that bring in the sun while protecting us from it. Whatever you guys do take into account what Africans like and build around our liking.

[@harmoniousfrenchman8775]

Master of Architecture graduate from NewSchool of Architecture & Design, San Diego. Leaving the US for good, going to design in Africa using, Critical Regionalism - The African Flare. They will be copying us, you will see...

[@marielaveau6362]

they already do. It's subtle but apparent.

[@harmoniousfrenchman8775]

@@marielaveau6362 Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[@CelineAdobea]

Great talk 🙌🏾 I'm so inspired to contribute to the growth of Africa 🌱

[@antonioalfredofreitas7754]

These are the best! I love the video! I ame a brasilian architecture 57 years old and want to help! Sorry my poor english!

[@odizzido]

I really hope this all becomes true.

[@bryby216]

Look, the majority of Africa is in mass poverty, and is facing over population, as well as the degradation of land. It's easy to criticize. However, people like this man that are willing to stand up and take the lead on changing the fate of their countries is the first step in a prosperous society. It may take decades, but as long as people have a genuine stake and motivation in the well being of their home, things will improve. The great wealth and beauty that the western world enjoys is because men throughout history were discontent with the way things were and decided to change them for the better. This is is hopefully the path that Africa is on as well.

[@dorzuohans]

Great speech, excellent work that they're doing

[@Good7Vibes7]

Great ,I like that my brother even though there is many obstacle as we can see on this comment session we must overcome for our children and future Africans generation.

[@bobflendorg1064]

Manono: Recent genetic research has revealed that your "obstacle" is 700,000 years old. Good luck with that.

[@missw5591]

Amazing, thank-you for this talk!

[@jksmartniga1442]

so inspiring speech, by christian him self, big up ma bro in the world of Architecture as am one of the up on Architect's

[@dannympoto6973]

I am buying this idea of having African architecture that responds to the African landscape and environment. Most architecture in Africa for instance in my country DRC is a replica of the west. We can keep our style within modern architecture and maximize efficiency by taking advantage of our natural environment and climate. Danny Mpoto

[@marmosetfreund8506]

Dis guy knows de wae. Love for Africa, best wishes!

[@waigwemwangi3271]

Land Reclamation is the solution! And going higher!

[@soggysunshine8700]

Uganda be kidding me! Kenya believe it? African love this!!

[@salamanduru8333]

kenya we do...

[@SheCaresBeauty]

Bravo brother. Bravo. The vision will not tary, wait on it 🙌🏾

[@eccentriclullaby1357]

I love this Ted Talk, way to go!

[@nfearther2936]

👋👋👋👋 yes! Creative inspiration!!

[@conradjabo]

Beautiful and insipiration message

[@madyogaboy]

Great video good luck Africa!

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

Every time I see a video like this, instead of the first thought being "I wonder what this person is gonna do to change my perspective" to "I wonder what form of racism and other bigotry will be the bigotry of the day in the comments" TED comments section: Please change. You aren't funny, you aren't edgy, and you are actively harming the world and most of the people living in it.

[@marcelloursic424]

The comments on their website are much more insightful, thoughtful, and polite.

[@Arbfor]

how is the comments section of a youtube video harming the world lmao

[@marcelloursic424]

James, the comment section is full of virulence, racism, and bigotry which as well as being a depressing cross-section of KZbin, is harmful to the world.

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

Bob Flendorg you need Psychiatric help if you really believe what you said.

[@wltrs_srtlw7349]

No body cares you low T boi

[@eccentriclullaby1357]

Yes 🙌🙌🙌

[@lukullikiwamba6494]

we change our mind set ...everything change around you....

[@ArThur_hara]

Brother... I agree

[@chastelnguie2870]

It's like you said ,africa needs a new wave of architect ,who inspirate of ours owns materials .but i have a question ,about the architecture formation,what is the best way to have a good formation?is it just to stay in africa or going out of the contry to have a good formation ? And after this come back to his contry

[@CUBETechie]

There need to be apprenticeships i hope Francis kére and other could organise something like that it would be beneficial.

[@teuton8363]

great ideo, the problem of africa is not the talent nor the people nor the resources, the problem are the governments.

[@KaiInMotion]

So, tear down stilted houses and build floating ones with anchors? Basically Venice but with big wood houseboats.

[@CUBETechie]

6:45 it has similarities to the village Francis kére build (maybe it from him) but I think his design is actually open source

[@wilfredtackie2351]

We import development that we cannot sustain and do not know the reason behind it. African for you

[@Vbelle8]

Love this 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@chrisa2366]

Yeap africa is the future for investment

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Every time we see someone with dark skin, I feel like people are just overreacting to this, because of the cultural stereotype that depict them as lesser. I wish people would try to be truly human and don't think only about hia skin.

[@ivorobotnikt6090]

Stop talking to mzungu about afrikan architecture, afrikkan architecture is for black people to enjoy

[@hiyahiy]

9.08 yes start them young.

[@luinadantas]

maravilhoso!

[@medeanadjavonah1948]

How about Birthcontrol? Not only in Africa. In all of the world would be really wise.

[@danielmwendwa791]

Kindly host a similar talk for an African audience

[@stizandelasage]

give your designs I will try to build it in America with all my might

[@grizzlymanverneteil4443]

I usually troll TED, but this pretty cool.

[@maryellenponder1892]

Love

[@JasperKlijndijk]

should invest in contruction sand, will be worth up to 2000% the price in africa you would pay for it today within 20years

[@geraldsoria1764]

africa has a ton of potential but their government is ineffective and corrupt

[@marcelloursic424]

*governments are for the most part

[@sybylo]

Where is this project? 9:39

[@danielrutalindwagakwavu9269]

Ruhehe Primary School in Rwanda

[@justinaadk5081]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@susuilu]

Leave China and help your home

[@toneo6710]

That experiment of indigenously trained architects in Nigeria is failing as the local politics has consumed their “creative” thinking. As money takes centre stage, Architects in Nigeria rely on 3D graphics and being a builder on site. Precious few are interested in Architecture in the true sense, beyond “cutting and pasting” ideas from elsewhere.

[@Biggababyvol1]

ironically he looks liek the first inhabitants of china when they came from ethiopia and spread thru india bangledesh and napali lol history buffs anyone? only me ill head out 👍🤷🏽‍♂️🚶‍♂️

[@spanishinquisition5032]

But what about the females?

[@osemudiame123]

rkid what?

[@larryjake7783]

Don't bring that western crap to Africa....they're women will have equal respect and opportunity

[@leveljoe]

If the population of Africa is going to double in 30 years, perhaps a program to encourage birth control would be a good direction to move resources.

[@OneInTheRiver]

Half the kids are going to die from malnutrition anyway

[@leveljoe]

I would hazard to guess that over half of population has no access to BC. If encourage and was available, the growth could be at a more sustainable rate. Your comparison to China and the 1 child policy is laughable. The number of children a couple must have, on average, to sustain (not grow) the population of Africa, is about 3 to 6 depending on area. The time of women being baby factories has long past in most of the world. Sorry to tell you...

[@fionafiona1146]

(female) Education is the best birth control, especially as it's hereditary and scales fast.

[@leveljoe]

fiona fiona absolutely true.

[@deanvere4839]

You do realize nature itself controls population. If there is no food to go around, the poor just die. If anything, the wealthy survive in the end. Which are few in all societies anyways. If the US goes from 350M to 2 billion without enough resources, the poor die.

[@EJRAAMSY]

Hello

[@赵易-v6f]

Sorry to tell u that the lecture used the wrong territory map of China.

[@TMWriting]

They sure did have a lot of talks at this African event.

[@naviya7972]

아프리카에 기존과는 다른 건축물과 건축가 디자이너들이 많이 생기길. 번역 감사합니다.

[@ductuslupus87]

8:46 ones of these is not like the others.

[@markant9534]

+Malcolm Pagett She must be North African.

[@ductuslupus87]

I was actually talking about the "African Design Centre" on the left. lol.

[@s.punkt21]

WE

[@duragonnn]

KANGZ

[@BikingVikingHH]

Here is to them architecting the wheel

[@galacticpulsegaming2877]

Intro looks new

[@kevinhart4real]

Ok

[@kevinhart4real]

D

[@sagenebulous]

Show us da wae

[@marcelloursic424]

*sigh*

[@kemojones9326]

Thought that was meek mill lol

[@prestons9305]

So....build buildings that use the local resources at hand? And in such a way where everyone has space to live? How revolutionary. Its videos like this that make me feel really really smart.

[@dylanbuchman8128]

Preston Sholl I'm sure it doesn't take much for you to reassure yourself that you're really smart

[@andreilyas1426]

You are so insecure

[@GeoffreyCavalier]

The idea is not revolutionary, but it isn't used. It just doesn't happen.

[@malcomdiene7745]

Then you're dumb because you didn't get the point, lol.

[@chigasaki06]

Believe me, it's a very temporary feeling. Your mind is right...you're dumb, lol.

[@felixlynch7327]

The bricks shall be made using only the strongest manure

[@mahirahmahid7564]

ForrestSCS Nice!

[@Daniel-mf8yn]

How else do you think bricks are made? They are using the abundant resources they have to their needs. It is a lot cheaper than shipping materials from some far off country. This is what you'd call innovation.

[@bobflendorg1064]

Forrest: How do you think steel is made? That's right.... with Fire.

[@Ccreyescr]

WE BUILT DEM PEARMIDZ AND SHIET

[@dylanbuchman8128]

Ccreyescr wow you really followed along with the discussion! 👏 thank you so much for your participation it's really appreciated

[@OneInTheRiver]

DO DEY KNO DE WEY?!?

[@Brewe4991]

*Wakanda incoming...*

[@SPACEDOUT19]

WE WUZ DEZYNERZ N SHIIIEEET

[@Minptahhathor]

Tf

[@nel_dubbio_mena]

Nice comedy

[@IndigoXYZ18]

We need to be able to have an adult conversation about overpopulation. As resourceful and adaptive as the strategies presented here are, what is being overlooked is the fact that Western advances would already comfortably sustain the African continent if the population scaled reasonably with the available resources. This excessive breeding stratagy makes sense when living as hunter gatherers where the vast majority of offspring will die before reproductive age, however in a modern context it continually results in mass starvation. An adult conversation about eugenics would be even more useful and would improve the quality of life on our home continent immeasurably, far more than any well meaning philanthropic strategies would. It saddens me deeply that misplaced altruism has prevented us from having an honest conversation about the real cause of the state of squalor these people are unfortunate enough to live in; the differences in average IQ among varying ethnicities. To the doubters (of which there be many), know that there is more evidence to support these claims than any other claims made in psychological science. IQ scores are the greatest predictor of educational attainment and financial success (among other things), and are in fact better at predicting these life outcomes than any other psychometric datapoint is at predicting anything. There hasn't been a single study on IQ where when race was factored in to the equation, average differences weren't found. Environmental impact has been tested for in identical twin & transracial adoption studies, where differences in environment were ruled out as accurate predictor of IQ. Dr. Bruce Lahn's accidental findings when searching genes influencing IQ scores, only made irrefutable that which was obvious to begin with. Dr. Lahn's studies were so predictive of IQ that the University of Chicago patented a genetic IQ test, which they quickly retracted and pressured him into ending his study, when it was later discovered that these genes aren't distributed evenly among varying ethnicities.

[@OneInTheRiver]

We need a solution. Something lasting and effective. Dare I say, final?

[@Slaaffen]

Do you have a source for Japanese and Chinese having an average IQ of 60 in the 50's? I found a reference to a study from 50's where Japanese IQ was measured to be 106.6 on average. IQ is also unfortunately mostly genetic as the IQ gap doesn't really differ between white and black Americans who are from similar socioeconomic backgrounds.

[@IndigoXYZ18]

Technocracy I'm well aware of how inefficient we are with our resources, and the systemic incentives imbeded in capitalism that are resposible for this. I'm not saying we can't sustain Africa's reproductive rate, this presentation highlighted some very practical means of doing this for their public infrastructure, only that we haven't because their birth rate is ludicrously higher than any other region ever has been (unless we are counting fundy religious minoraties). You'll find their high birth rate has more to IQ than it does economic factors, lower IQ people generally have less children across all races (as in bellow average IQ Western Whites have as many children as average IQ African Blacks). I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're little mass extermination quip was tongue in cheek. That said as impossibly complex as the Human brain is, the neuroanatomical features that separate a high IQ brain from a low IQ brain are actually fairly simple. Fortunatly pharmacological stratagies exist to boost IQ in fully developed adults. Pharmacological intervention, embryo selection eugenics and Internet access, prioritize that over anything else and the wells will build themselves. The Flynn Effect is what you are reffering to with regards to increases in IQ scaling with country development. However mostly has to do with pre and post natal nutrition. The Flynn effect scales with the amount of people who have enough to eat, and doesn't apply to the wealthy and well feed in these under developed countries. However you'll still find that even when adopted into European families from birth, Africans have much lower IQ's than their adopted families on average, and Asians adopted from birth have higher IQ's than their adopted European families. Furthermore twin adoption studies reveal that socioeconomic factors have very little measurable influence on IQ, twins adopted from birth always have the same IQ regardless of the race and wealth of the homes they were adopted into. As well as having similar intrests, similar or identical careers, having and recovering from mental breakdowns at the same time in life, amoung other striking similarities that nurture cannot account for. For me what caused me to go down thi rabbit hole was failing to account for the minoraty of high IQ people coming out of these third world countries, born into communities that looked like they would foster just about anything but genius. Why do high IQ Blacks occasionally come out of poor families, and why do they end up doing better than the ocasional low IQ White that comes out of a wealthy family? You want to talk serious science, every study on IQ ever conducted points to this being true. Dr. Bruce Lahn's accidental findings genetic IQ test (which was so accurate the Univercity of Chicago patented the test until they found out biology isn't concerned with political correctness at which point they dropped the patent and pressured Dr. Lahn from pusuing further research into the matter) should have been the the final nail in the coffin.

[@Daniel-mf8yn]

Once economic stability is achieved, so will the population stabilize. If a mother is guaranteed to not die, or have her child die, during childbirth then she will have less children. Another way to prevent overpopulation is by having easily accessible birth control, and having the population educated on ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies. A lot easier said than done, but the overall point is that the population will stabilize once the economy does.

[@IndigoXYZ18]

Daniel That doesn't at all sound intuitive "If a mother is guaranteed to not die, or have her child die, during childbirth then she will have less children.", but a lot of these social science phenomena are I suppose. A little skeptical given the fact that moving to first world countries doesn't seem to slow their average birth rate much, but even if we managed to get their average birth rate down to the African American level (which isn't that much less), it still wouldn't likely be sustainable. However even if true, that is still *if* the economy stabilizes, and that's a very big if. Birth control education sounds like a good idea, however eugenic policies sound like an even better one (implemented everywhere, although Africa needs it most).

[@ilyaelric9539]

700million more housing units or 700million condoms...hmmm...

[@diegovillarreal3906]

Sho us da wey, my brudda

[@kulik03]

Didn't know I was subscribed to TedAfrica

[@messyties]

Tedzania

[@DigitalProReview]

...and....your point?

[@dylanbuchman8128]

kulik03 that's alright, Ted Africa didn't know you even existed

[@Umur64]

Didn't know I was subscribed to TedAmerica

[@longzeng]

it has a population more than europe and america combined so

[@lxc647]

Make stores easier to rob