his year’s Venice Architecture Biennale will go down in exhibition history as a watershed moment for the industry. With the prompt-as-title “The Laboratory of the Future,” Lesley Lokko, the Ghanaian-Scottish curator of this year’s event – and the first architect of African descent to hold the position – has selected a theme that challenges the traditional ways in which architecture, as a practice stemming from a western lineage, is conceived, presented and discussed. Instead, she has shifted the focus to the African continent – as a geographical place but also as a perspective, a world view – in which young architectural practices abound that rethink the built environment in ways that are non-extractive, decolonial, solution-driven, and
