YAA Projects designs architecture in dialogue and response to place, identity, climate, material and history.
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YAA Projects is an architecture, design, and research practice dedicated to exploring counter-histories and engaging with material and diasporic cultures through the making, writing, and speaking of architecture.
Our work centres cultural identities to shape a more inclusive and holistic built environment. We work across a variety of scales and interests—from exhibitions and interiors to residential, housing, public spaces, and cultural projects. Our portfolio includes projects with leading institutions such as the Design Museum, V&A Museum, Manchester Museum, William Morris Gallery, and the Venice Biennale, alongside public bodies like the Greater London Authority, as well as private residential commissions in the UK and abroad. Our current research projects include a study of the African communal housing typologies. We have showcased this work in Common, Communal, Community and at the Dakar Biennale.
Writing and speaking architecture through teaching, research, and public dialogue are integral to our practice. We contribute to architectural education in the UK and internationally and regularly speak at conferences and symposiums globally.
Above all, we believe that good buildings, spaces and environments are designed through dialogue and in response to place, identity, climate, material and history.
Nana Biamah-Ofosu Director
Nana Biamah-Ofosu is a Ghanaian-British architect. Her practice focuses on the architecture and urbanism of African modernity, communality, domesticity, identity and geography through a diasporic and decolonial framework. She is an experienced educator and has lectured widely in the U.K. and internationally, including at the inaugural Venice Biennale College Architettura, Kingston University and currently at the Architectural Association, where she leads a diploma unit. She is also a member of the African Future Institute’s Nomadic African Studio core faculty.
Nana has served on the juries of several awards, including the RIBA Silver Medal and the Commonwealth Association of Architects awards, and is currently a member of the RIBA Awards Working Group and the Soane Medal Committee.
Nana has served in the juries of several awards, including the RIBA Silver Medal, and is a member of the RIBA Awards Working Group and the Soane Medal Committee. As a writer, she explores the social, political, and cultural impact of design and architecture, engaging with contemporary practitioners to define new paths towards a more critical, expansive, and inclusive discourse on the built environment.
Team Past & Present
William Keaton Seddon
Efua Boakye
Richard Aina
Sharon Fung
Siqi Zhao
Working with us
We are always interested in hearing from potential clients and collaborators. If you are interested in working with us, please contact us at info@yaaprojects.com