# Lesley Lokko
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Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish architect, academic, and novelist. She has been the professor and dean of Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York since 2019, juggling between teaching positions and different careers in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburg.In 2015, Lokko established the Graduate School of Architecture (GSA) at University of Johannesburg – the first and only African school dedicated to postgraduate architecture education.
== Early life and education ==
lesley lokko was born in Dundee, the daughter of a Ghanaian surgeon and a Scottish Jewish mother, and grew up in Ghana and Scotland.
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Lesley's work as an architecture is an example of how we can mitigate the impacts of colonization.
The Colonial Legacy and its Impacts don't get discussed as often as why African countries can't develop. Let's look at some of the economic legacies of colonization.
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The Biennale Architettura 2023: The Laboratory of the Future- Arsenale
This year's theme, “The Laboratory of the Future,” curated by academic and novelist Lesley Lokko, resonates deeply with me and aligns perfectly with the Theme of this channel. Lokko said, “Architects have a unique opportunity to put forward ambitious and creative ideas that help us imagine a more …
'The Heist': Reclaiming the Benin Bronzes from the British Museum with Chidi Nwaubani
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Perception Podcast with me your host Caroline Partridge. In this week's episode, I talk to multidisciplinary artist, digital innovator and creator of pioneering 'Looty Art' the brilliant Chidi Nwaubani. In this illuminating and inspiring conversation, Chi…
E96. Towards A New Architecture. with Dr. Lesley Lokko OBE
About The Guest
Today we're honored to introduce our guest, Professor Lesley Lokko. A distinguished Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, and bestselling novelist, Dr. Lokko most recently served as the Curator of the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture, becoming the first Black-identified person …
AR Reads: The Invisible Women
How female architects were erased from history: published in AR March 2017, The Invisible Women by Eva Álvarez and Carlos Gómez traces how architectural discourse and history has favoured the sole (male) starchitect, erasing collaborative realities and the work of women as it does so.
As part of t…
AR Bookshelf: Lesley Lokko
Lesley Lokko talks to The Architectural Review about the books on her bookshelf, from Reni Eddo-Lodge and Nadine Gordimer to Rem Koolhaas and Hello magazine. Through these books, we discuss corporate Black Lives Matter statements, bad book covers, and the truth found in fiction.
The AR Bookshel…
Mariam Issoufou: Designing a museum
Architect Mariam Issoufou has always been very ambivalent about museums: "Who decided that the only way to look at art is inside this intimidating, grand building, full of looted objects? For me, they are where history goes to die". So she was sceptical about accepting the job of designing a new mu…
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