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Tosin Oshinowo - Architecture, Culture, and the Search for Identity

As part of AnA London in October 2025, we had the opportunity to get to know the architect Tosin Oshinowo. Check our website for more architecture talks: @ Our international event format Architects, not Architecture is known for inviting some of the most influential architects of our time and asks them to talk about their path, influences, and intellectual biographies. Follow us on our social media channel and don't miss any upcoming events: 📌 Instagram:   / architectsnotarchitecture   📌 Faceboook:   / architectstnotarchitecture   📌 LinkedIn:   / architectsnotarchitecture   About Tosin Oshinowo: Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based Nigerian architect and the principal and founder of Oshinowo Studio, established in 2013. She has worked on several civic, commercial, and residential projects throughout Nigeria and is renowned for her socially responsive approach to architecture, design, and urbanism. Oshinowo’s key designs include a project with the United Nations Development Programme to build a new community in northern Nigeria for a village displaced by Boko Haram, the Maryland Mall in Lagos, and Adidas’ flagship store in West Africa. Her work demonstrates a strong interest in architectural history while embodying a contemporary perspective on African design and innovation. Her curatorial work focuses primarily on concerns of culture and identity, embodying a contemporary perspective of urbanism in the global South. She co-curated the second Lagos Biennial in 2019 and curated the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2023. Her research project, Alternative Urbanism: Self-organising Lagos Markets, received a special mention award at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. Oshinowo is a registered architect in the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Before founding Oshinowo Studio, she worked in the offices of Skidmore Owings & Merrill in London, the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, and James Cubitt Architects in Lagos. She is a 2025 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. https://www.oshinowostudio.com/tosin-...