Nana Biamah-Ofosu was in conversation with Walter J Hood, a multidisciplinary designer and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, CA. Hood gave lecture that interrogated the American narrative of community 'underdevelopment,' centring minority communities where the accumulation of cultural and economic capital has been deliberately constrained. Following the lecture, Nana and Walter engaged in a conversation focused on shared themes in their practices.
Watch the lecture and conversation here.
50 Influential African Women Architects
We are proud to announce that Nana Biamah-Ofosu has been named as one of 50 Influential African Women Architects, amongst a distinguished crowed of pioneering African women. The list was curated by African Column, a platform dedicated to projecting, celebrating, and supporting the work of Africans in Art, Architecture and Design. Click here to see the list.
50 Influential African Curators
Nana Biamah-Ofosu has been named as one of 50 Influential African Curators. The list was curated by African Column, a platform dedicated to projecting, celebrating, and supporting the work of Africans in Art, Architecture and Design. For YAA Projects, this recognition is a testament to our approach as a practice, considering making, speaking and writing as not separate strands but integrated modes of practice. Click here to see the list.
Tropical Modernism Revisited March 2025
Nana Biamah-Ofosu was invited as a speaker to the Tropical Modernism Revisited Symposium in Hawaiʻi . The theme of this gathering is Tropical Modernism, with an emphasis on regional variations covering Africa, the Near or Middle East and South Asia; and impacts on Southeast Asia, Australia, Hawaii, and the Americas. Nana’s contribution focused on her research on Tropical Modernsim in West Africa and contributions to two seminal exhibitions with the V&A Museum on the subject. Watch Nana’s presentation here. [1:35:00 - 2:06:30]
Butabu Remix December 2025
We are looking forward to Nana Biamah-Ofosu’s new essay in BUTABU THE REMIX.
The publication reimagines the architectural landscapes of West Africa through a contemporary lens that is both poetic and analytical. In this major new volume, British photographer James Morris presents over 300 reedited and remastered photographs—many previously unpublished—that reveal the expressive power and dignity of earthen architecture across Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, and Togo. These buildings, sculpted from mud and sunlight, are not static relics but living testaments to ecological intelligence, community, and artistry.
Edited by Lesley Lokko, founder of the African Futures Institute in Accra, the book pairs Morris’s luminous photography with newly commissioned texts, including several new voices in architectural writing from a young generation of African and diasporic thinkers. Their writings respond to Morris’s images with fresh critical insight, tracing how traditional knowledge and material practice speak urgently to today’s concerns—sustainability, identity, and belonging—while opening pathways toward new architectural and cultural futures.
With contributions by David Adjaye, Ewa Effiom, Lois Innes, Francis Kéré, Lesley Lokko, James Morris, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, and Izabela Wieczorek.
Solar shortlisted for AJ Small Projects 2025 April 2025
We are pleased to announce that our exhibition design for the Design Museum and Future Observatory’s Design Researchers on Residence display has been shortlisted for the 2025 AJ Small Projects prize.
5 Rising Curators to Keep Your Eye, Art News December 2024
Nana Biamah-Ofosu has been named 5 Rising Curators to Keep Your Eye on in 2025. Read more here.
Zoé Whitley‘s Art Professional to watch, Art News December 2024
Zoé Whitley, Director of Chisenhale Gallery in London has selected Nana Biamah-Ofosu as ‘the art professional you have your eye on for 2025’. She said of Nana’s work:
Nana Biamah-Ofosu, who co-curated “Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa” in the Applied Arts Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. She’s on the Soane Medal jury and had the inspired idea to award structural engineer Hanif Kara. He’s the reason extraordinary renderings actually exist as functional edifices. She took the honor in a new direction by not thinking only about architects but about how prize-winning architecture comes to be. I’m eager to see what she does next.
Remnants: How To Re-assemble A City, Edinburgh International Book Festival August 2024
Nana Biamah-Ofosu took part in this year’s edition of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In conversation with Denise Bennetts, Jude Barber chaired by Suzanne Ewing, Nana took part in a diverse and thought-provoking discussion about accessibility, mapping, feminism, multi-generational compounds, embedded power in architecture. Nana’s contributions centred on her research on design aesthetics in post-colonial African countries and how the communal compound house typology of the continent could inform future housing and ubranism.
Konfekt Magaazine, Issue 14 March 2024
For the latest issue of Konfekt Magazine, Nana Biamah-Ofosu spoke to Konfekt Magazine about the V&A Museum’s latest exhibition, Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, discussing the exhibition’s role in reframing the history and legacies of tropical modernism in Ghana and India.