What started as a once-off event in Tanzania in 2005 was followed up by the Architecture Today congress in Kumasi, Ghana in 2007. At the TU Delft African Perspectives it was decided to grown the series into a bi-annual event hosted on the African continent focussing on architecture of the Africa.

AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES 2009, the third international conference in the series to be hosted in Africa, will focus on the unique and diverse character of the African City as resource as well as resourcing the city.

The AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES 2009, conference will be hosted in conjunction with one of the highlights on the South African architectural calendar: the annual Architectural Students Conference which attracts close to a thousand students from across the sub-continent.