2022 Childs Memorial Lecture: Patricia Anahory

This talk will trace a narrative path across BAC alum Patricia Anahory's architecture education and practice, weaving her personal journey as an African-woman-architect with critical reflections on political legacies of architecture and dominant spatial narratives and explore what it means to practice architecture otherwise.

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This lecture was approved by AIA to grant 1 HSW CEU for attendees. 

The Maurice F. Childs Endowed Lectureship honors the memory of Maurice F. Childs—a dedicated preservationist and celebrated architect who co-founded the Boston-based firm CBT Architects.

Patricia Anahory, B.Arch'95, is the co-founder of Storia na Lugar, a storytelling and counter-narrative platform, whose work was exhibited at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia (2021), and is co-curator of her(e), otherwise, an experimental platform that invites African and diaspora women architects to interrogate notions of representation and belonging. She served as founding director of CIDLOT, a multidisciplinary research center at the University of Cabo Verde (2012-2009). She currently serves as a member of the Board of Academic Advisors at the African Futures Institute, an independent postgraduate school of architecture in Accra, Ghana, and serves as External Examiner at Namibia University of Science and Technology and International Visiting Critic at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Patricia Anahory co-authored the forthcoming book Panorama da Arquitetura Habitacional em Cabo Verde/Panorama of Dwelling Architecture in Cabo Verde [Edições UniCV 2022] and her work is featured in The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design [Routledge 2021], the Phaidon Atlas of 21st-century Contemporary World Architecture [Phaidon Press Ltd 2008], and in the forthcoming book The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015, [Bloomsbury Publishing] and a publication from RIBA looking at women architects across the globe.

This year, she was selected as the alternate for the WOJR-Civitella Ranieri Foundation Architecture Prize and is a member of a collective awarded a Graham Foundation grant. In 2000 she won the Rotch Traveling Scholarship competition becoming the first black person and only the second woman to receive the prize since its establishment in 1883.

Patricia Anahory holds a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a professional undergraduate degree in architecture from the Boston Architectural College. She has various completed and current architecture projects in Cabo Verde, Ghana, and Portugal.