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Tosin Oshinowo
Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based Nigerian architect and the principal and founder of Oshinowo Studio, established in 2013. She has worked on several civic, commercial, and residential projects throughout Nigeria and is renowned for her socially responsive approach to architecture, design, and urbanism.
Tosin’s curatorial work focuses primarily on concerns of culture and identity, embodying a contemporary perspective of urbanism in the Global South. She co-curated the second Lagos Biennial in 2019 and curated the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2023. She also partnered with Lexus International on a conceptual design exploration for Design Miami 2020. Her research project, Alternative Urbanism: Self-organising Lagos Markets, received a special mention award at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. She is a 2025 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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