Architecture Lecture by James George | [An] AFFORDACITY: Towards a Future African City

James George is an architect and Design Director of HTL practicing out of Lagos, Nigeria, and Johannesburg, South Africa, where his immediate focus is on Innovative Sustainable Solutions and Future African Cities.

In 2003 George 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-person, research-based innovation practice HTL Nigeria, producing theory and building work in West Africa; some of which include: 8 Bridge (published in ArchiAfrika, September 2011) and Lagos: An Absence of Systems (exhibited at Goethe Institut (Lagos, 2009). George has also given lectures at the Department For International Development (DFID), University of Lagos and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. His office has recently received funding from the German Government to mount Affordacity: an exhibition of their research on Affordable Future African City Solutions which is scheduled for July 2016.