L’“altra modernità” di Demas Nwoko. Un’alternativa forma di pensiero climatico

An innovative approach, a sort of synthesis between the principles of Tro-pical Architecture and the elements of local tradition, is that undertaken by the architect-artist Demas Nwoko, who formalized it in the Natural Syn-tesis manifesto before, and then in the magazine New Culture: A Review of African Arts. It is the result of a personal poetic expression characteri-zed by a high degree of experimentation, on which the period spent at the École des Beaux-Arts, the trips to Europe and the United States certainly had a decisive influence.A little-known but consolidated design experience, inextricably linked to the climate, place and materials; an "other" but not necessarily vernacular modernity, which reflects the cosmopolitanism of Nigeria in the post-co-lonial years.