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Lines in the Dust: Discovering Context in East African Architecture: Discovering Context in East African Architecture

Lines in the Dust: Discovering Context in East African Architecture: Discovering Context in East African Architecture


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The inability to fly a small plane at night forced an unplanned landing deep in the Serengeti. As the sun set over a wilderness untouched by human ambition, the author-an architect tasked with designing rural health facilities-was struck by a profound contradiction. Architecture is meant to serve, yet it imposes; it draws form from nature, but always at a cost. Standing amid tall grass and ancient silence, the author began to confront a truth often ignored in global development: every act of building alters what came before.This moment became a turning point in a career shaped by efforts to build responsibly in East Africa. It raised the essential question that frames this book: How can we design in fragile environments without erasing the very things that give those places life and meaning? Part memoir, part inquiry, this is a journey through the ethical tensions of building in landscapes where belonging must matter more than blueprints-and where development must learn to listen before it acts.What does it mean to build wisely-in a place not your own, within systems not your own, for people whose stories have long been shaped by forces beyond their control?When architect Verle Hansen arrived in Tanzania, he brought with him the tools of his profession: training, ambition, and carefully drawn lines. But the land had its own logic, and the people their own quiet wisdom. What followed was not just a professional journey, but a personal unmaking-a shedding of assumptions about design, development, and what it means to be civilized.Set amid the shifting realities of post-colonial East Africa, Lines in the Dust traces Hansen's efforts to design hospitals that could meet real needs without erasing the contexts they entered. With lyrical clarity and hard-earned insight, he reflects on scarcity and resilience, tradition and transformation, and the quiet power of architecture as a form of listening.This is not a book about heroic design. It is a book about learning to see-and allowing the dust, the people, and the patient land itself to draw the lines that matter.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798349575440
  • Publisher: Aligndesign Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Aligndesign Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Discovering Context in East African Architecture: Discovering Context in East African Architecture
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8349575441
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 358 gr


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