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Thandi Loewenson
Zimbabwean-British architect (born 1989) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thandi Loewenson (Harare, 1989)[1] is a Zimbawean-British architect and researcher. She received the Wheelwright Prize in 2024.[2]
Biography
Born in Harare, Loewenson holds a PhD in Architectural Design from The Bartlett, UCL in London.[1] She is a co-founder of the architectural collective BREAK//LINE, formed at The Bartlett in 2018 to "oppose the trespass of capital, the indifference towards inequality, and the myriad frontiers of oppression present in architectural education and practice today."[1]
In 2021, her project Lumumba in Space: African Space Programs and the Project of Liberation was awarded a Graham Foundation grant for research.[3] Two years later, she received another Graham Foundation grant for her exhibition proposal The Uhuru Catalogue[4], which was featured in the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture[5] and received a sppecial mention as part of the International Exhibition alongside Twenty Nine Studio / Sammy Baloji and Wolff Architects.[6]
In 2024, she received the Wheelwright Prize for her proposal Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air, which explores social and spatial dynamics in modern Africa and introduces a framework titled «The Entanglement of Earth and Air».[7]
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