Patricia Anahory

Patricia Anahory is an architect working across building, art, pedagogy and curatorial practices to explore frameworks from which to understand the entanglements of space, coloniality, race, power, and arbiters of development. Her interests center on interrogating the politics and narratives of identity and belonging across spatial practices.

Currently, she is Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s GSAPP and a member of the Board of Academic Advisors at the African Futures Institute, an independent postgraduate school of architecture in Accra, Ghana.

Anahory is the co-founder of Storia na Lugar, a storytelling and counter-narrative platform and a co-curator of her(e), otherwise, an experimental platform that welcomes African and diaspora women architects to develop a community for knowledge production, and facilitate inquiry into notions of representation and belonging.

While at the University of Cabo Verde, she served as Founding Director of CIDLOT, a multidisciplinary research center proposing a critical understanding of the dynamics between territory, settlement and local development.

She holds a Masters of Architecture degree from Princeton University and professional undergraduate degree in architecture from the Boston Architectural College