Professor Hannah Le Roux (she/her)

PhD

School of Architecture and Landscape

Senior Lecturer

Co-Director of Postgraduate Research

Hannah le Roux
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H.K.leRoux@sheffield.ac.uk

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

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 RIS download Bibtex download
  • 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 RIS download Bibtex download
  • 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. RIS download Bibtex download
  • le Roux H (2021) Pancho's passages, Architectural Education Through Materiality (pp. 68-81). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • le Roux H (2021) CINVA to Siyabuswa, Rethinking Global Modernism (pp. 233-250). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • 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. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Roux HL (2017) Migrations from A to [a] In Mueller B (Ed.), [APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS De Gruyter RIS download Bibtex download
  • le Roux H (2014) The Ethiopian Quarter, CHANGING SPACE, CHANGING CITY: JOHANNESBERG AFTER APARTHIED (pp. 498-505). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Le Roux H (2006) The networks of tropical architecture, Narrating Architecture: A Retrospective Anthology (pp. 379-397). RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

Other

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