Luyanda Mpahlwa 10x10

Architecture & Interiors/2009/23 min/Reel № 09.001

ByLuyanda Mpahlwa

Luyanda Mpahlwa's housing solution

What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Luyanda Mpahlwa takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in South Africa in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Luyanda's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Finding solutions for the housing problem in South Africa is a pressing issue and one that architects have a lot to contribute to, says Luyanda Mpahlwa.

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About the speaker

Luyanda Mpahlwa

Cape Town/South Africa

Architect Luyanda Mpahlwa is principal and director of MMA Architects in Cape Town.