He spent two decades in prison and in exile, but Luyanda Mpahlwa is now a partner in a thriving architectural practice. MMA Architects—his Cape Town, South Africa, firm—has gained international recognition for projects both at home and abroad. The firm’s work on an innovative housing project in the impoverished Mitchell’s Plain Township has just been honored with the Curry Stone Design Prize, a $100,000 humanitarian award established this year to pay tribute to designers tackling the needs of the world’s poor.
Luyanda Mpahlwa with his firm’s housing project in Mitchell’s Plain Township, which won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize (top). MMA Architects’ South African embassy in Berlin (above).
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