Where we sit, talk and watch the street.
The compound houses our grandparents built stayed cool without a single air conditioner. Many of today's estates can't be lived in without one. What did we lose, and what can we take back?
In Ghana, the veranda is where people sit, talk and watch the street go by. This journal is a place to do the same with the buildings, streets and cities around us.
Essays on climate, design, materials and the way we build, written from the site and the street by Joseph Eguei Yartey, construction technologist. More about the journal.
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