Vernacular architecture evolves over time reflecting the characteristics of the local environment, climate, culture,
natural materials, technology and the experience of centuries of community building. Mostly, men build the house and
the women decorate the facades. All the figures have a symbolic meaning. This paper studied east African vernacular
wall decorations from an art and design point of view. The objective was to document the fast fading cultural practices

In this paper, we investigate the physical manifestation of ongoing urban habitat transformation in the
context of a residential neighbourhood, Kileleshwa, which is located in the western suburbs of Nairobi.
This is done through an analysis of the emergent morphology of the urban habitat by delving into various
levels of urban resolution: the street network, the plots, and the buildings, while tracing the roots of the
neighbourhood in the colonial era and its rapid change in the current millennium. In so doing, the aim

The desire of people to leave their mark on walls has been around for thousands of years. Archaeologists
have found graffiti scratched on walls in the city of Pompeii as old as 1908. This paper looks at graffiti
designed by the East African graffiti artists and their works as an art and design form. It also sought to
establish how they have used graffiti as a social economic impact factor to change themselves and the
environment around them for the better. The study applied desktop and multiple case study research