African Design Magazine September 2015 | Page 73

i Architect profile MMA DESIGN STUDIO Where do you see African architecture going in the next decade? In the next decade, with the growth of the middle class in Africa there will be increasing demand for quality design that is reflective of modern aspirations, is socially and culturally relevant and commercially sustainable. Accoding to Anna Klingmann, “As we are living more and more in an intangible economy in which the greatest sources of wealth are no longer physical but perceptual, intellectual and emotional, the value of architecture is no longer appraised merely as a formal object but by