I am currently a Lecturer (teaching) at the Bartlett School of Architecture where I coordinate and teach History and Theory of Architecture for some undergraduate modules of architecture, co-lead the Public Programme of the School, and take care of students experiencing difficulties in their second year of studies.

I study post-war post-imperial transnational histories of ecology, architecture, and planning. I explore ideas of ‘human resources’ through exchanges between architecture schools in post-war Britain and post-independence Ghana, specifically through functionalist notions of architecture, climate, the environment, and the human, which reverberated in 1960s and 1970s models of planetary population management in architecture and planning, and in contemporary global planning consultancy practices.

I am most interested in the work that scholars publishing in Duke University Press such as AbdouMaliq Simone or Mel Y. Chen who build on ideas of Frantz Fanon to respond to pressing ontological questions today. Also the work of scholars in Aggregate Collaborative rethinking architectural history in a transnational intersectional way.

I had a strong interest in ecological ideas in architecture since my training and practice as an architect in Spain through and after the 2008 economic crisis. Exhausted, precarious, and without much life prospects, I turned to the also precarious but enriching fields of the arts and humanities which led me to work in the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London as events assistant, curator, and publications manager, and later on to pursue a PhD.

I developed a research and teaching project called ‘As Hardly Found in the Architecture Archive’ to revamp the ‘as found’ practices of brutalist architects and artists in their encounters with everyday objects and the ecologies these represented. This project has so far led to two main outcomes: an exhibition titled As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture (Architectural Association Gallery, 2023) and an edited book titled As Hardly Found: Art and Tropical Architecture published by the Architectural Association Press in 2025. This project has involved contemporary artists, historians, and archivists tracing artworks which ecological significance challenged the histories of ‘tropical architecture’ told so far.

It has been such a wonderful journey throughout my PhD where I have felt supported at every critical moment by the CHASE team and my supervisor. Perhaps it was my time in Ghana where I could attend lectures organised by the blaxTARLINES collective in Kumasi, the art infrastructures developed by Ibrahim Mahama, and a class by kąrî'Kạchä seid'ou. I am trying to take care of these networks for future collective projects.

I am developing a monograph proposal coming out of my PhD titled Architecture’s Human Resource: Kumasi, London, and the Consultancy for Independence, preparing events related to the publication of my edited book, and considering a research project on ‘constellations of human resources in architecture’  that expands my PhD research to Spain’s Instituto Nacional de Colonización and other post-war post-imperial projects where the human was treated as another resource for the construction of the built environment.  

An increasingly challenging global context has made human and non-human life precarious and disposable and there is little one can do about it except to live through it and appreciate each moment of respite. Undertaking a PhD is one of those moments to think about the world from our tiny disciplinary parcel and to change one’s relation to that world, to others, and towards oneself.