INHABITING
Inhabiting,
the first mark that man made in the world. His very first way of existing. From
the uterus to the house, this intrinsically feminine universe that represents
the act of inhabiting is a place and inside it all of the forms of being in the
world merge together, being father or a son, being before or after.The home
in Luanda is a polarizer of the family world in its widest sense. The
fundamental relationships of socialization begin and end inside it. Birth,
growing up and even death symbolically take place in the home and the
understanding of this is tied to the ability to interpret the person from
Luanda, the Angolan and even the African. The home today still preserves those
ancestral places, which are not limited to walls and roofs. This entity which
is so conventional and which is a place of things, emerges from man rather than
space. It is something created for "us". For this reason, and so many
others, it is fundamental to "us" to be collective, and nothing is
more "us" than a piece of the sky..." Architect Angela Branco Lima Mingas
TAPESTRY
Geometrical
thinking has been active, often interwoven with artistic, artisanal,
architectonic, ceremonial, educational, aesthetic, musical, religious, social,
and symbolic consideration and practices. Development
of geometrical thinking starts early in African history. In general, early
humans learned to geometrize in the context of their labor activities. The
hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert in Southern
Africa
learned to track animals, learned to recognize and interpret spoors. The shape
of a spoor makes it possible to evaluate what animal passed by, how long ago,
if it was hungry or not, etc. Geometrical shapesintertwine
in a [SYSTEM] (pattern): creating a complexity through the simplicity of its
elements.