Lesley Lokko chosen as curator for 2023 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition
Today the Board of La Biennale di Venezia announced the appointment of Lesley Lokko as its curator for the 2023 La Biennale di Venezia's Architecture Exhibition. Lokko is an esteemed architectural leader, best-selling novelist, and academic advocate whose work within and outside architecture circles has proven her a formidable force for change. Upon her appointment, Lokko shared with La Biennale di Venezia, "A new world order is emerging, with new centers of knowledge production and control. New audiences are also emerging, hungry for different narratives, different tools, and different languages of space, form, and place." Image from African Futures Institute website. Image courtesy of AfricanFuturesInstitute.comThis past year, Lokko's work and efforts within architectural academia have made headlines. While her resignation as Dean of CCNY's Spitzer School of Architecture in October 2020 shook the architecture community, that did not stop Lokko's unshakeable efforts and dedicatio...
Today the Board of La Biennale di Venezia announced the appointment of Lesley Lokko as its curator for the 2023 La Biennale di Venezia's Architecture Exhibition.
Lokko is an esteemed architectural leader, best-selling novelist, and academic advocate whose work within and outside architecture circles has proven her a formidable force for change. Upon her appointment, Lokko shared with La Biennale di Venezia, "A new world order is emerging, with new centers of knowledge production and control. New audiences are also emerging, hungry for different narratives, different tools, and different languages of space, form, and place."
This past year, Lokko's work and efforts within architectural academia have made headlines. While her resignation as Dean of CCNY's Spitzer School of Architecture in October 2020 shook the architecture community, that did not stop Lokko's unshakeable efforts and dedicatio...
