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by Oliver Wainwright
October 2020
When the Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko was appointed to head the architecture school at the City college of New York last year, her arrival was hailed as bringing “renewed energy and an exciting new vision” to the school. But after less than a year in the post, Lokko has resigned, citing a “crippling workload and lack of respect and empathy for black women”.
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by AR Editors
July 2020
This week we launched the second episode of the AR’s new podcast AR Bookshelf, featuring architect, academic and writer Lesley Lokko. For this week’s reading list we take a look back at the writing Lokko has published in the AR since 2010.
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by Prof Lesley Lokko OBE
June 2020
Five years ago the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Just City Lab published The Just City Essays: 26 Visions of Inclusion, Equity and Opportunity. The questions it posed were deceptively simple: What would a just city look like? And what could be the strategies to get there? These questions were posed to mayors, architects, artists, philanthropists, educators and journalists in 22 cities, who told stories of global injustice and their dreams for reparative and restorative justice in the city.