The vernacular and pre-colonial cultures of Africa demonstrate a sophisticated approach to living at one with the environment.

Architect and researcher Peter Rich has based his own efforts to build and structure a contemporary African sense of space and place on what he has learned while documenting, observing, and researching the indigenous, organic, and formalized settlements of South Africa, Mali, and Rwanda.

Rich's design practice and consulting work focus on creating space that responds sensitively to its cultural and ecological contexts, and on countering the creeping anonymity of African cities that results from the adoption, without translation, of global culture. He is widely recognized as an authority on African vernacular architecture, with seminal research on Ndebele, Bantwane, and Tswana settlements and recent research on organic urban settlements. In addition to leading his Johannesburg-based design practice, Peter Rich Architects, Rich has recently become Coordinator of the Urban Planning Unit of the city of Kigali in Rwanda.

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