Dismembering Africa´s Buildings: Ornament and Crime

Itohan Osayimwese is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Urban Studies at Brown University. Her research engages with theories of modernity, postcolonialism, and globalization to analyze built environments in nineteenth and twentieth-century West Africa, the Anglo-Caribbean, and Germany. She is author of Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany (Pittsburgh, 2017), and editor of German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023). Osayimwese’s work has also been published in the Journal of Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, Architectural Theory Review, Traditional Dwelling and Settlements Review, Perspecta, Thresholds, African Art, and ABE Journal. Her research has been funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Canadian Center for Architecture, Gerda Henkel Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service, Graham Foundation for the Fine Arts, Social Sciences Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Most recently, Osayimwese was awarded the 2020 Schelling Foundation Prize for Architectural Theory. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians, is currently a board member of the European Architectural History Network and Thresholds, and is co-chair of the Minority Scholars Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians. Her current research explores migration, property, and emancipation in the Anglo-Caribbean, and the problem of translation in the historiography of African architecture.

RINGVORLESUNG "ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH" | WS 2022/23
Itohan Osayimwese (Brown University): „Dismembering Africa´s Buildings: Ornament and Crime“
Donnerstag, 10. November 2022, 19:00 Uhr | HS L (PORR), Lessingstraße 26/1.OG, 8010 Graz