Architect, educator, and best-selling author Lesley Lokko has been appointed the curator of the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura by the board of La Biennale di Venezia. The Ghanian-Scottish architect is the founding director of the African Futures Institute, the founder of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, and a founding member of the Council on Urban Initiatives. The author of several books and guest editor of UCL Press Series, Lokko is also the founder and editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, which is supported by the African Futures Institute (AFI). The recipient of numerous honors, she won RIBA’s Annie Spink Award in 2020 and the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize in 2021. For the last 30 years, through her work in architecture, academia, and literature, she has investigated the relationship between race, culture, and space.
Lokko is the first Black architect and fourth woman–following Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (2018) and Kazuyo Sejima (2010)–to assume the role of lead curator of the global event in Italy.
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