THE ALAN VAUGHAN- RICHARDS HOUSE
- Words Jareh Das
- Photos Christina Nwabugo
Standing defiant against the city that has grown around it, one architect's experimental Lagos home has become a quiet monument to the ideas and family he built it for.
Alan Vaughan-Richards first came to Lagos in 1956 as a fledgling associate with the Architects’ Co-Partnership, a firm of recently graduated students from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He had already spent time working with the Iraqi Development Board and on projects for Oxford University, but it would be in Nigeria that he would make his mark. Over the next 30 years, he would come to play a key role in shaping the city’s urban fabric—first with Architects’ Co-Partnership and then, following Nigerian independence in 1960, leading his own practice and helping to develop a distinctly Nigerian form of modernist architecture.
