A FUSION OF NIGERIA'S REGIONAL ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN THE DESIGN OF PROPOSED NATIONAL ARTS AND HISTORY MUSEUM, ABUJA.

📄 Project Abstract

Several researches have been done to ascertain the impact or influence of Euro-American architectural style to third world countries, especially within Africa. This thesis argues that the architecture of Nigeria as obviously distinct between her 3 major geo-political zones; Hausa land, Igbo land and Yoruba land, also referred to as Regionalism existent within each zone, bear common features in terms of both sense of space as well as sense of place as obvious in their planning concept and or building form, which provides a centre for fusion to obtain a unique style that cuts across all three regions with intrinsic identity. Given the odds of such a fusion it is suggested under the aegis of Deconstructivism, an architectural philosophy concerned with abstraction and fragmentation of constructs towards the evolution of new forms of existence of same. The data for this research was gathered both from literature on the architectural history of Nigeria from the Traditional to post-modern era...