In Search of the true Spirit of African Architecture:
art and intellect
how to speak architecture?.
To paraphrase B. Zevi, Modern Architecture coincides with the modern way of looking at the architecture of the past... The modern language of Architecture was not born suddenly in 1859 with William Morris' Red House. Its messages go back, as far back as the Paleolithic Age.
Edouard Din is a Cameroonian researcher and editor/publisher of Papyrus.
He holds a Diploma of Architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
He worked at Atelier de Montrouge in Paris under the supervision of R. Riboulet and P.Veret - former interns of Le Corbusier. He also experienced earth construction with ADAUA in Rosso (Mauretania) and in Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso).
In order to master the ingredients needed for in-depth analysis of African art and architecture, he achieved a Masters degree in Mathematics at University of North Carolina.
Presently at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, he is a PhD Candiate in Design Computing under the supervision of C. Eastman - one of the pionneer of CAD systems and Anasthasios Economou, a former student of Lionel March.





"Architecture is the Scientific Art of making structure express ideas."
F.L. Wright, An American Architecture.
"Architecture to me means construction achieved by a triumph of the intellect."
Le Corbusier, Oeuvre Complete.
Edouard Din holds a Diploma of Architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology where he has received a very good initiation both in formal properties of form: space syntax, literal and phenomenal transparency from Prof. Peter von Meiss and J.-Marc Lamuniere.
Edouard Din has been a professional architect for more than a decade in the arena of modern architecture: he has been working at Atelier de Montrouge in Paris under the supervision of Robert Riboulet and Pierre Veret - former interns of Le Corbusier, and also experienced earth construction with ADAUA in Rosso (Mauretania) and in Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso).  In his search for revitalizing African Architecture at the age of globalization, he is gathering a comprehensive knowledge of African inspired patterns worldwide, through travels worldwide and self-learning and academia. 
Arrived in USA in early nineties as visiting scholar and assistant professor, he spends at North Carolina State University/School of Design in Raleigh one academic year conducting research on the relationships between traditional African art and early-29th Century visual experiments while discovering the impact of digital media on the future of design.
In order to master the ingredients needed for in-depth analysis of African art and architecture, he achieved a Master degree in Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and he has started a PhD in Design Computing under the supervision of C. Eastman - one of the pionneer of CAD systems - with a lecturer position at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
But what really makes his approach extremely challenging is his understanding of the history and theory of the modern architectural avant-garde and a broad knowledge of African humanities through the teachings of great masters such as Ogotemmeli the totemic priest, Din Endene his own grandfather, scribe and scientist, Cheikh Anta Diop the egyptologist, Dika Akwa the anthropologist, Niangoran Bouah the drummologist, John Clarke and Yosef ben-Jochannan the historians and of course so many other prominent elders. 

Din Endene, Scribe & Scientist
Prince Dika Akwa nya Bonambela, Mentor & Author
Dr. Nkoth Bisseck, politist &Papyrus deputy chief editor
Dr. Albert Azeyeh, semiologist &Papyrus chief editor

Imhotep master architect of the step pyramid as Saqqara circa 2680BC,
who has been called "the first architect".
Hassan Fathy, a leading architect in the african architectural renewal,
2nd-half of 20th century.
"I know it and none of you told me.
Ancestors will speak to you if 
you know how to consult them..."
Le Corbusier - 1908

The Dogon Keeper and Edouard Din at Sangha-Mali 1979.
An introduction to Dogon religious ideas: African Cosmogony.
Mae Jemison the first african female astronaut. a woman with a mission, a patron of african art.
Dr. Mae Jemison and Edouard Din in Durham-USA, 1999		 Peter von Meiss, professor of architecture
Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne-Switzerland
Robert Burns, professor of architecture
North Carolina State University School of Design-Raleigh

Dr.Thomas Brylawski,
professor of mathematics, graduate advisor at UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at Chapel Hill

 Dr. Idris Assani,
professor of mathematics, graduate mentor at UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at Chapel Hill

Pat Thompson, art librarian at UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at Chapel Hill

Dr.Jarek Rossignac, professor of computer graphics at GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in Atlanta
 

Dr. Athanasios Economou, professor of architecture at GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in Atlanta

Pr. Charles Eastman,
professor of architecture, and computer sciences at GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in Atlanta
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