Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi
A practice-led collaboration between James Muriuki and Constance Smith, “Excavation | Elevation” examines the excavations and extractions that make high-rise architecture possible. Focusing on the socio-geologies of Nairobi, it follows the city’s urban transformation above and below ground. As fi...
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A practice-led collaboration between James Muriuki and Constance Smith, “Excavation | Elevation” examines the excavations and extractions that make high-rise architecture possible. Focusing on the socio-geologies of Nairobi, it follows the city’s urban transformation above and below ground. As fields become tower blocks, excavation and extraction, quarrying and land speculation underpin new high-rise skylines. But horizons can be fragile: buildings collapse and construction sites play host to new urban ecologies, as the underneath and the surface shape each other.
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| spelling | doaj-art-0b0ffeb2fd37433d8816c9fdea997f8a2025-08-20T03:51:24ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariLagoonscapes2785-27092025-07-015110.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/01/003journal_article_26070Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in NairobiMuriuki, James0Smith, Constance1Visual practitioner, KenyaThe University of Manchester, UK A practice-led collaboration between James Muriuki and Constance Smith, “Excavation | Elevation” examines the excavations and extractions that make high-rise architecture possible. Focusing on the socio-geologies of Nairobi, it follows the city’s urban transformation above and below ground. As fields become tower blocks, excavation and extraction, quarrying and land speculation underpin new high-rise skylines. But horizons can be fragile: buildings collapse and construction sites play host to new urban ecologies, as the underneath and the surface shape each other. http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/01/003Construction. Extraction. High-rise housing. Nairobi. Urban anthropology |
| spellingShingle | Muriuki, James Smith, Constance Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi Lagoonscapes Construction. Extraction. High-rise housing. Nairobi. Urban anthropology |
| title | Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi |
| title_full | Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi |
| title_fullStr | Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi |
| title_short | Excavation | Elevation: Above and Below Ground in Nairobi |
| title_sort | excavation elevation above and below ground in nairobi |
| topic | Construction. Extraction. High-rise housing. Nairobi. Urban anthropology |
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