

朱文一线上建筑非洲
朱 文 一
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ZHU WENYI ONLINE+ARCHITECTURE IN AFRICA
BY ZHU WENYI
This is the fourth book in the series of books, ZHU Wenyi Online Architecture in Africa, following ZHU Wenyi Online Architecture in China, ZHU Wenyi Online Architecture in Asia and ZHU Wenyi Online Architecture in Europe. There are a total of 54 countries in Africa that are member states of the United Nations, including 6 countries in North Africa: Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; 11 countries in East Africa: Ethiopia, South Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Seychelles, Rwanda, Burundi; 8 countries in Central Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (DRC), Sao Tome and Principe; 16 countries in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Liberia, C?te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria; 13 countries in South Africa: Botswana, Namibia, Angola, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Comoros, Mauritius, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
The 59 architectural, urban and landscape conceptual designs included in this book cover all 54 African countries. I have visited 8 countries in person. That is to say, there are 46 countries where I explored, discovered, conceived and drawing the design schemes through online tours. In fact, even if I have visited a country, there are very few design locations that I have experienced offline.
The book ZHU Wenyi Online Architecture in Africa contains 59 conceptual design proposals covering 54 African countries, mainly completed in 2025. It can be divided into three periods according to the time sequence:
The third period (2025) includes 55 design works covering 51 countries, and I completed 1 work in 1 country. This is the conceptual design schemes for architecture, city and landscape that I completed individually after retiring in 2023 and starting an online tour of African countries from February to July in 2025. During this period, I called myself an online architect.
The second period (2021-2022) includes 2 design works from 2 countries. Since 2021, I no longer recruit graduate students, and thus I began my experience of participating in international design competitions individually. During this period, I called myself an Architecture Competitor. A total of 82 entries completed during the three-year period were mainly concentrated in Europe and the United States, of which 74 were my solo entries completed as an Architecture Competitor, including 2 design works of international competitions in African countries included in this book.
The first period (2018-2019) includes 2 design works from 2 countries. These are the international design competition entries completed by the ZHUWENYI Atelier, which I chaired. During this period, I collaborated with graduate students to complete 79 design works. This book includes 2 design works in African countries. Here, I would like to thank the graduate students for their hard work.
It is important to note that the work "Architecture on Smartphone", completed on July 12, 2025, is a vision of the 54 design proposals of online architecture in Africa.
At the end of this book, There are 6 appendices at the end of this book, which are introductions to ZHU Wenyi's 6 books: Theory of Online Architecture (2023), Online Architecture (2013-2023), and ZHU Wenyi Online+Architecture in China (2013-2024), ZHU Wenyi Online+Architecture in Asia (2015-2025). and ZHU Wenyi Online+Architecture in Europe (2025). They show how I came up with and explored the process of online architectural design and its theories.
The pursuit is endless. When the formatting of this book ZHU Wenyi Online+Architecture in Africa (2025) was completed, the editing and typesetting of ZHU Wenyi Online+ Architecture in Asia Pacific is in progress.
Zhu Wenyi
On August 10, 2025
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