INTERFACES



LESLEY LOKKO
#AllMustFall

lecture and conversation with
UMN College of Design
Dean Carol Strohecker

 SEE THE TALK HERE

Monday
February 24
4:30pm

LESLEY LOKKO is an architect, academic and the author of eleven best-selling novels. She is Dean of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, and was the founder and former director of the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of London (2007). She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture(University of Minnesota Press, 2000); editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architectureand is on the editorial board of ARQ (Cambridge). In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners(Orion 2004), a UK-Guardian top forty best-seller, and has since then followed with ten further best-sellers, which have been translated into fifteen languages. She has lectured and published widely on the subject of race, identity and architecture, and has served on a number of juries and awards over the past decade.

www.lesleylokko.com
www.gsa.ac.za
www.ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/people/lesley-lokko/


reading list:
re: Architectural Education
Mbembe, A. Decolonising the University
Lokko, L. White Papers, Black Marks: Introduction
Pacheco, A. & Lokko, L. Decolonization is a Gift
Sunwoo, I. The Well-Laid Table
Marjanovic, I. Cheerful Chats
Davidson, C. The New Education

Novels
Gordimer, N. July's People
Malouf, D. Remembering Babylon



photo credit: Debra Hurford-Brown