Accra Architecture Archive

Building (an architecture archive of) Early Accra

Archival Images, Historical Records, Architectural Drawings, and more from Ghana. Instagram: @accra_archive

[Accra Architecture Archive @Accra_Archive]

Thank you to @BBCAfrica for featuring this labour of love that is the #buildingEarlyAccra project.

On this May Day, this thread features some of those who have worked to make this project possible as well as others who have contributed in various ways.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

"Between 1955 and 1958, we see a lot of building and this coincides with our independence."

@Kuukuwa_ Manful's work at @SOAS is revealing the historic treasures of Ghana's design past.

@Accra_Archive | #Ghana 🇬🇭

[Kuukuwa Manful @Kuukuwa_]

We mourn the loss of Squadron Leader Ivy Naa Ayorkor Tetteh, a friend of Accra Archive.

The @Accra_Archive team extends our sincerest condolences to Squadron Leader Ivy Naa Ayorkor Tetteh’s family and friends.

May she rest in perfect peace.
https://t.co/tGaQludMLg

[Ibrahim mahama @ibrahim_mahama]

Please apply. Architects and artists

[Vera-Simone Schulz 🇺🇦 @VeraSmnSchulz]

Are you working on postcards & architecture & would you like to present @SAH1365 in person in Montréal April 12-16, 2023?

Send us your abstract by June 7 via the online submission portal for our @Suha__Hasan session "Reading Postcard Architecture Against the Grain"!

#postcards

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

"Between 1955 and 1958, we see a lot of building and this coincides with our independence."

@Kuukuwa_ Manful's work at @SOAS is revealing the historic treasures of Ghana's design past.

@Accra_Archive | #Ghana 🇬🇭

[Accra Architecture Archive @Accra_Archive]

To Rev Quartey for valuable support during covid-19 lockdown. To Valerie Lawson for a timely donation of makeup brushes for cleaning fragile documents.

Also importantly various support staff and food vendors who kept the team going.

[Accra Architecture Archive @Accra_Archive]

Thank you to @BBCAfrica for featuring this labour of love that is the #buildingEarlyAccra project.

On this May Day, this thread features some of those who have worked to make this project possible as well as others who have contributed in various ways.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

"Between 1955 and 1958, we see a lot of building and this coincides with our independence."

@Kuukuwa_ Manful's work at @SOAS is revealing the historic treasures of Ghana's design past.

@Accra_Archive | #Ghana 🇬🇭

[Accra Architecture Archive @Accra_Archive]

We're grateful to contributors to our blog @AsaabaGH (https://t.co/MJDFjakvLo) and @girishdaswani (https://t.co/xqDdhoakaf)

As well us our fans and readers who email us with additional sources, photos, links and helpful leads.

[Sara Salem @saramsalem]

WE’RE LIVE!!!

A platform of incredible contributions re-imagining maps and space across Africa + the diaspora

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[LOATAD @loatad_org]

#WAWResident @thisNneoma stays working overtime with yet another published piece, this time for @HistoryWO on temporality and why it matters. This piece was partly workshopped during the #wawresidency. Read and learn… 📝

[Accra Architecture Archive @Accra_Archive]

@_kobbyna @Kuukuwa_ @bbcworldservice @britishlibrary @bl_eap True. See @CapeCoastArc - they share photos and information about historical buildings in Cape Coast

[Architectural Humanities Research Association @ArchHumanities]

This is brilliant! The materiality (and toxicity) of archives, and their rescue and recovery. For more on @Accra_Archive see https://t.co/w5WSjoNf4j

[Lolan Sagoe-Moses @LolanEkow]

Just listened to an interesting @BBCAfrica feature on @Kuukuwa_ 's @Accra_Archive. Very important work digitizing records of architectural drawings of early Accra.