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by Hannah Silver
December 2021
La Biennale di Venezia, led by president Roberto Cicutto, has announced Lesley Lokko as director of the architecture sector for 2023’s 18th International Architecture Exhibition – the famous Venice Architecture Biennale.
Academic, educator and novelist Lokko brings her extensive experience to the role, drawing on the postgraduate school of architecture and public events platform, African Futures Institute in Accra, Ghana, which she founded in 2020. She is also director and founder of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.
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by Manon Mollard
November 2021
Francesca Hughes and Lesley Lokko discuss how we can decolonise and decarbonise our educational institutions
Until last year, Lesley Lokko was in New York, where the streets were socially on fire, and Francesca Hughes in Sydney, where the bush was literally on fire. Having resigned from their positions as heads of school, they speak about the necessary changes to architectural education.
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by Cajsa Carlson
January 2021
Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko has won the 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award for her contribution to architectural education.
Lokko was named the 11th winner of the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education, which is awarded every two years by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to a person who has "made an outstanding contribution to architectural education".
Lokko dedicates award to BLM supporters, GSA teachers and students