Lesley Lokko
Born in Dundee, 1964
Lesley Lokko (Dundee, Scotland, 1964) is dean of the City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture, and the founder of the University of Johannesburg Graduate School of Architecture, South Africa.
She edited the book “White Papers, Black Marks: Architecture, Race, Culture” (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). She is the editor-in-chief of Folio: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture published by the GSA, and is a member of the editorial board at Arq: Architectural Research Quarterly published by Cambridge University Press.
Lokko is a novelist whose first story, “Sundowners” (2004), was followed by another ten bestsellers. She holds conferences and writes about race, identity and architecture, and serves on juries for awards and prizes.
In 2021, she was among the judges who awarded the Lions of the Venice Architecture Biennale and was named Curator of the 2023 Architecture Biennale.
