TOGO

On the occasion of its first participation in the Biennale Architettura, Togo places emphasis on the themes of conservation and transformation. These concepts take shape in the Tata, straw and mud dwellings built by the Tamberma people in the north of the country, true masterpieces of vernacular engineering. The Pavilion also sets up a dialogue between Afro-Brazilian architecture, developed between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries by formerly enslaved people returning from Brazil, and significant examples of modernism that emerged in the post-independence period, beginning in 1960.