Professor Hannah Le Roux (she/her)

PhD

School of Architecture

Senior Lecturer

Co-Director of Postgraduate Research

H.K.leRoux@sheffield.ac.uk

Arts Tower

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Professor Hannah Le Roux
School of Architecture
Arts Tower
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN

Profile

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: BArch, MArch, PhD, Registered Architect (South Africa)

Research interests: Modern architecture and its afterlives; African urban transformation; Post-mining landscapes

Publications

Journal articles

Woudstra R & le Roux H (2022) “Build Your Own House”: Betty Spence’s Design-Research in 1950s South Africa. Architectural Theory Review, 26(3), 427-457.
le Roux H (2022) Earth Versus FIFA: Resisting Globalisation on the Open Pitch. Architectural Design, 92(6), 54-61.
le Roux H (2022) 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.
le Roux H (2020) Architectures of Discrimination and Destruction. Art Journal, 79(1), 114-116.
le Roux H (2019) Designing KwaThema: Cultural Inscriptions in the Model Township. Journal of Southern African Studies, 45(2), 273-301.
le Roux H (2018) SWARTBERG HOUSE: WHITE ARCHITECTURE IN THE POST-SIMPLE MOMENT. ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA(89), 42-51.
le Roux H (2017) Bunnawithout Borders: Coffee/Making as a Relational Space. Architecture and Culture, 5(3), 463-474.
le Roux H (2017) The Johannesburg Gas Works. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 72(3), 307-308.
le Roux H (2014) Design for the Missing Middle: Architecture in a Context of Inequality. Journal of Architectural Education, 68(2), 160-161.
Le Roux H (2012) Adside attraction. Architectural Record, 200(8), 72-74.
Barac M, Bremner L, Le Roux H & Lokko L (2007) Great expectations. Architectural Review(1324), 36-39.
Roux HL (2004) Modern Architecture in Post-Colonial Ghana and Nigeria. Architectural History, 47, 361-392.
Roux HL (2004) Building on the boundary — modern architecture in the tropics. Social Identities, 10(4), 439-453.
le Roux H (2003) The networks of tropical architecture. The Journal of Architecture, 8(3), 337-354.
le Roux H & Morojele M (2003) The Lakeside Community Crêche: architecture beyond apartheid. The Journal of Architecture, 8(2), 265-272.
Roux HL () Comfort, Violence, Care: Decolonising Tropical Architecture at Blida, 1956. ABE Journal(17).

Chapters

le Roux H (2022) Binding Freedom in A Dissertation, 1974 In Harriss H, Salama A & Gonzalez Lara A (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South (pp. 87-100). Routledge
le Roux H & Hecht G (2022) Bad Earth In Axel N, Barber D, Hirsch N & Vidokle A (Ed.), Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change e-Flux Architecture and University of Minnesota Press
le Roux H (2022) Circulating Asbestos: The International AC Review, 1956-1985 In Förster K (Ed.), Environmental Histories of Architecture Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture.
le Roux H (2021) Pancho's passages, Architectural Education Through Materiality (pp. 68-81). Routledge
le Roux H (2021) CINVA to Siyabuswa, Rethinking Global Modernism (pp. 233-250). Routledge
le Roux H (2021) Southern fragments of Swiss asbestos-cement, 1940-2040 In Aprea S, Navone N, Stalder L & Nichols S (Ed.), Concrete in Switzerland Histories from the Recent Past (pp. 173-186). Lausanne: EPFL Press.
Roux HL (2017) Migrations from A to [a] In Mueller B (Ed.), [APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS De Gruyter
le Roux H (2014) The Ethiopian Quarter, CHANGING SPACE, CHANGING CITY: JOHANNESBERG AFTER APARTHIED (pp. 498-505).
Le Roux H (2006) The networks of tropical architecture, Narrating Architecture: A Retrospective Anthology (pp. 379-397).

Other

Le Roux H (2012) Nike Football Training Centre, Soweto, South Africa. Architectural Record, 200(3), 75-76.

Grants

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: PhD supervision in: histories of modernism and development in the Global South; reparative design; professional transformation; gender in architecture.