From 6 to 8 December 2007 ArchiAfrika will organise the manifestation African Perspectives in cooperation with Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture.

The international event ‘African Perspectives’ is a joint initiative of the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology and ArchiAfrika. This year marks the 165th anniversary of the founding of TU Delft, and the university is celebrating its 33rd quinquennial jubilee. The theme of this jubilee year is sustainable development, with a special focus on Africa. This is the context for the "African Perspectives" event, a marketplace where architects, urban planners and other professionals, academics and students from all over the world can meet each other at workshops, debates, exhibitions and films. For ArchiAfrika, the event is a logical follow-up to the conferences "Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence" in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (July 2005) and "Africa Architecture Today" in Kumasi, Ghana (June 2007). The event will be held in two languages: English and French, the main languages on the African continent.

A number of specific processes can be identified in Africa, and will be considered from the following perspectives: urban development, the built cultural heritage, constructional engineering, the African Diaspora, and African architecture.

Exhibition "Cities of the World" as centerpiece
The centerpiece of the event will be an exhibition of the work of Titus Matiyane entitled "Cities of the World". Matiyane lives and works in Atteridgeville, a township close to Pretoria. His panoramic drawings (1,5 metres high and from 6 to 46 metres long) give the impression that the artist has studied cities and landscapes from the air. However, his first panoramas date from the early 1990s but he did not fly for the first time until 1998.

The exhibition of Titus Matiyane’s work reflects the basic themes of the event. It shows us intercontinental urban landscapes through his African eyes; it is his "African Perspective". The cooperation can only succeed if it is a true two-way exchange, i.e. Titus’s view of "our" world, and his work seen from a Western perspective.