Royal Gold Medal 2024 for architecture - winner Professor Lesley Lokko
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2024
- Professor Lesley Lokko, Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author and curator has been announced as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal 2024 by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Learn more about Professor Lokko and why she has been awarded the Royal Gold Medal: www.architecture.com/awards-a...
The Royal Gold Medal is one of the world’s highest honours in architecture, and is presented on behalf of His Majesty the King. It recognises Lokko’s commitment to championing diverse approaches to architectural practice and education.
In this film, Professor Lokko is joined by peers, friends, her mentor and RIBA's President to tell the story of her remarkable career, including the founding of the African Futures Institute in Accra, Ghana.
'What first sparked my interest in architecture? I think at a very deep level, I think that I was searching for some place in the world that I could call home.' Professor Lesley Lokko, Royal Gold Medallist 2024.
The education of an architect is actually a real fit education for a whole range of things. It has nothing to do with buildings, it's about the design of the society.
As a former student of Prof Lesley Lokko, she absolutely deserves to be recognized and more. This is one hard working woman who is constantly pushing boundaries at multitudes of levels, in architectural education and practice. Especially helping African architecture students recognize value in their own contexts and responding through architectural design.
this award used to be given to outstanding architects at world level atop bodies of work stretching back decades, real architecture and construction with all its manifold complications and difficulties. This award looks like it was based on her race and the race of the President of the RIBA.
IMO we should keep facile 'identity politics' and virtue signalling out of architecture. What do you think Natache?
@@MrVorpalsword spot on. Identity politics and all of its associated bankrupt ideologies are infecting architectural practice/discipline. Such awards based on optics and DEI are signs of decay.
Can we see the buildings she designed?
I’m still waiting too
a small residence in Ghana once I believe.
She has never designed a building that has been built. The award has become meaningless. Strange and bizarre.
Bravo flor RIBA ! Big Step for the future of architecure, a human practice.
iam an architecct - I have no clou what they are talking about ! is it possible that this is architecture by talking ?
Exactly. Never heard of her till now. She's no Zaha Hadid.
@@freddyray6805 There is no competition between them, and will never be. They achieved many different things in many different cases and contextualities.
Golf medal for a non architect who’s never designed anything
Interesting
Did you actually watch the full documentary or are you just here to complain? Go find something better to do if this is not of interest to you.
from a below par RIBA?
Wow ...... "the black body was Europe's first unit of energy" .......... run that by me again?
9:16 She means that the physical slave black body, was a unit of "energy". Energy because slaves worked hard , expended energy for Europe....
She seems to forget that slavery was practiced by Africans, Arabs, middle Eastern for many centuries by and against people of all skin colours.
@@freddyray6805 but that's rubbish too real rubbish ... I don't mean your explanation, its all about how far back you go, did cavemen have slaves? who the heck knows, beasts of burden, the Sun - just hundreds of other sources of energy knocking about. What colour were the cavemen - no idea.
@@freddyray6805 my reply was censored, I think it thought it was Rachelist ... it wasn't ............ was the award? (however, I do think A.I. should be treated with extreme prejudice)