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Ghana’s local architecture has adapted to change for centuries. It can teach us about climate resilience

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par Saeed Akannah Junior, Lecturer, School of Build Environment, Bolgatanga Technical University

When people discuss architecture in Ghana, attention often focuses on modern buildings: concrete houses, glass offices, shopping malls and ambitious urban developments. Yet across the country, another architectural tradition continues to offer lessons about how people have built and lived for generations.

This is vernacular architecture. It is not uniquely Ghanaian. The term refers to buildings and settlements shaped largely by local knowledge, materials, construction techniques, cultural practices and environmental conditions of a particular region. It is not simply old or traditional…

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