On this video produced by the Royal British Institute of Architects, Ghanaian-Scottish architect and educator Lesley Lokko displays on her profession and Royal Gold Medal win, which was introduced at present.
“There’s been plenty of speak about how what I do is not structure,” mirrored Lokko.
“It was all the time very clear to me that there was a distinction between the occupation of structure and the self-discipline of structure. I believe within the final 10 years, we’re starting to see these two issues come barely nearer collectively,” she continued.
“I very a lot hope that this medal demonstrates that it is price it to assume otherwise. It is price it to go off-piste or to go off the overwhelmed monitor.”
Lokko is the primary African lady to obtain the distinguished Royal Gold Medal from the Royal British Institute of Architects (RIBA) because it was established in 1848.
She can be the third lady to win it in her personal proper – somewhat than as a part of a staff – following within the footsteps of architects Zaha Hadid and Yasmeen Lari.
Within the RIBA movie, the organisation’s president Muyiwa Oki stated Lokko was chosen because the 2024 recipient for her “groundbreaking work as an educator, curator and as an creator”.
He’s amongst a number of interviewees who additionally function within the video, with others together with architect Lanre Gbolade, Lokko’s Royal Gold Medal nominator.
“In professor Lokko, along with her progressive educating strategies to each current and future practitioners, in addition to transformative and influential management capabilities spanning properly over 30 years and counting, we actually do have a once-in-a-generation agent of change,” stated Gbolade.
Lokko is finest often known as the founding father of the African Futures Institute (AFI), a college of structure in Accra, and for her written work together with the White Papers Black Marks essays.
Extra lately, she was the curator of the 18th Worldwide Structure Biennale in Venice, which explored decarbonisation and decolonisation via the lens of Africa.
She might be formally introduced with the 2024 Royal Gold Medal on 2 Could 2024.
The video is courtesy of RIBA.
