Ecosystems: A Contemporary African Architecture Amber Husain Schneider is internationally renowned for

Schneider is internationally renowned for his unnerving presentation of normality

Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl

accompanied by a visceral soundtrack

The automaton allows its innards be glimpsed

captured his day-to-day life in the 1970s – his family and friends

Ecosystems: A Contemporary African Architecture Amber Husain Schneider is internationally renowned forAvailable to pre order this title is due to ship in October This first book by celebrated Senegalese practice Worofila addresses the challenge facing the African city of today: to build in a way that is adapted to the lives of current inhabitants without compromising those of future generations. Drawing on abundant but often ignored pre colonial methods and models of building, Worofila create bioclimatic architecture based around local, non polluting