Thandi Loewenson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1989 (age 35–36) |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | 2024 Wheelwright Prize |
Thandi Loewenson (Harare, 1989) [1] is a Zimbawean-British architect and researcher. She received the Wheelwright Prize in 2024. [2]
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]