Work
Architecture, exhibitions, research, and cultural infrastructure, different registers for the same question.
Brikicho 2026: The Wisdom of Seeds
A multi-week architectural exhibition in Nairobi investigating the tension between survival architecture and culturally-grounded design. Three spatial zones. Thirteen participants from across Africa and the Diaspora.
Explore the Exhibition →Philosophy & Intellectual Positions
"Architecture is a tool for spiritual grounding, community co-creation, and cultural continuity. I believe in vernacular intelligence, that communities hold deep spatial knowledge in their building traditions and craft practices. My work is to document, honour, and build on that intelligence."
On Interdisciplinary Practice
My practice deliberately crosses architecture, exhibition-making, research, and cultural production. It extends into emergent technology, including Machine Learning and Regenerative AI, as tools for making African spatial knowledge structured, comparable, and actionable. Though seemingly separate disciplines they come together to answer the same question: How can we contribute meaningfully to the conversation on African Architectural Futures.
Built Futures Atlas
A civic memory system designed to make lived experience in African cities, from the marginal to the central, legible enough to enter the room where decisions are made. Structured research editions, community participation, and machine learning to map how African cities are actually being experienced.
In DevelopmentField Notes
An architectural pedagogy and research study. Involves architecture students reading photographs through the lens of human scale to decide whether each image feels like distress or design.
Research OngoingMaterial Skin, Swahili Plaster Traditions
Archival and field research into Swahili plasterwork as architectural knowledge and intergenerational cultural memory.
Research OngoingNomadic African Studio, AFI Cohort 1
Founding cohort of the African Futures Institute's pedagogical studio exploring Pan-African architectural discourse, Fez, Morocco.
View ExplorationAfrican Art Agenda
Co-founded and leads the architecture arm of AAA, a female-led, multidisciplinary arts organisation rethinking African art as infrastructure.
About AAATraining
Bachelor of Architecture (RIBA Part I)
University of Brighton, UK. Foundation in architectural design, theory, and practice.
Diploma in Art & Design
Foundation in visual art and design thinking.
Biology Studies
Seton Hill University. Two years of biological sciences, informing my interest in organic systems, living architecture, and ecological thinking.
Practice
Co-Founder & Architectural Lead
African Art Agenda (AAA), Nairobi. Curatorial and spatial direction, programme architecture, organisational strategy, research, and partnership development.
Cave_bureau
Experience with the internationally recognised Nairobi-based practice. Includes exhibition work presented at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.
Fieldwork & Research
Fez, Morocco · Arusha & Suswa, Tanzania/Kenya · Makueni, Kenya · Mpumalanga, South Africa · Nairobi
Commission or Collaborate
Open to architectural briefs, exhibition partnerships, research collaborations, and cultural infrastructure projects.
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