Professor Hannah Le Roux (she/her)
PhD
School of Architecture
Senior Lecturer
Co-Director of Postgraduate Research
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Sheffield
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- Profile
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Hannah le Roux is an architect, educator and theorist.
Her work revisits the modernist project in architecture, and considers how its transformation through the agency of Africa presents a conceptual model for contemporary design. Her curation of exhibitions in Johannesburg, Venice, Brussels and Rotterdam engaged with the spatialities of diaspora coffee ceremonies and the soccer culture of earth fields through design research, and designed alterations to modernist buildings and public spaces in Johannesburg.
From 2022-2023 she was Guest Professor at the gta, ETH Zurich and a Senior Fellow at Collegium Helveticum. In 2017 she was selected as a Canadian Centre for Architecture / Mellon research fellow on Architecture and the Environment, and as a Fulbright Principal Candidate for an African Research Scholarship. She was the Area Editor for Africa for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015.
- Qualifications
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BArch, MArch, PhD, Registered Architect (South Africa)
- Research interests
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Modern architecture and its afterlives; African urban transformation; Post-mining landscapes
- Publications
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Journal articles
- “Build Your Own House”: Betty Spence’s Design-Research in 1950s South Africa. Architectural Theory Review, 26(3), 427-457.
- Earth Versus FIFA: Resisting Globalisation on the Open Pitch. Architectural Design, 92(6), 54-61.
- The Worlding of Architectural Labor - Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War. By Łukasz Stanek. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $60.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780691168708); e-book (ISBN: 9780691194554).. The Journal of African History, 63(2), 257-258.
- Architectures of Discrimination and Destruction. Art Journal, 79(1), 114-116.
- Designing KwaThema: Cultural Inscriptions in the Model Township. Journal of Southern African Studies, 45(2), 273-301.
- Bunnawithout Borders: Coffee/Making as a Relational Space. Architecture and Culture, 5(3), 463-474.
- The Johannesburg Gas Works. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 72(3), 307-308.
- Design for the Missing Middle: Architecture in a Context of Inequality. Journal of Architectural Education, 68(2), 160-161.
- Modern Architecture in Post-Colonial Ghana and Nigeria. Architectural History, 47, 361-392.
- Building on the boundary — modern architecture in the tropics. Social Identities, 10(4), 439-453.
- The networks of tropical architecture. The Journal of Architecture, 8(3), 337-354.
- The Lakeside Community Crêche: architecture beyond apartheid. The Journal of Architecture, 8(2), 265-272.
- De CINVA a Siyabuswa: el trayecto errático de la vivienda de autoayuda global. ARQ (Santiago)(116), 86-105.
- Appropriating Aid and Its Multiple Histories. ABE Journal(22).
- Comfort, Violence, Care: Decolonising Tropical Architecture at Blida, 1956. ABE Journal(17).
Chapters
- Pancho's passages, Architectural Education Through Materiality (pp. 68-81). Routledge
- CINVA to Siyabuswa, Rethinking Global Modernism (pp. 233-250). Routledge
- Migrations from A to [a] In Mueller B (Ed.), [APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS De Gruyter
- The networks of tropical architecture, Narrating Architecture: A Retrospective Anthology (pp. 379-397).
Other
- “Build Your Own House”: Betty Spence’s Design-Research in 1950s South Africa. Architectural Theory Review, 26(3), 427-457.
- Grants
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- Longue Durée of WEF in post-extraction landscapes: Learning from Gauteng and Limpopo Regions to develop an interdisciplinary approach. 2022-06 to 2025-06 | National Research Foundation (Pretoria , ZA)
- British architecture and the space of the mines. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University (London, GB) (2019)
- Inverting Township Imaginaries. 2018-01 to 2020-12 | National Research Foundation (Pretoria, ZA)
- Southern African foundations of spatial culture. 2017-11 to 2019-10 | Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (Cambridge, MA, US)
- Teaching interests
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PhD supervision in: histories of modernism and development in the Global South; reparative design; professional transformation; gender in architecture.