Dr Hannah Le Roux (she/her)

PhD

School of Architecture and Landscape

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Climate

Co-Director of Postgraduate Research

H.K.leRoux@sheffield.ac.uk

Arts Tower

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Dr Hannah Le Roux
School of Architecture and Landscape
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

Kohlberger M, le Roux H & Avermaete T (2025) Ekistics data. Mapping Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s abstracts of technical assistance, 1955–1972. Planning Perspectives. View this article in WRRO
le Roux H (2024) Architecture after partition Review of Architecture of Migration: the Dabaab refugee camps and humanitarian settlement, by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2023, 432 pp. ISBN: 9781478025245. Architectural Theory Review, 28(3), 508-510. View this article in WRRO
le Roux H (2024) CINVA to Siyabuswa: The unruly path of global self-help housing [De CINVA a Siyabuswa: el trayecto errtico de la vivienda de autoayuda global]. ARQ(116), 86-105. View this article in WRRO
Roux HL & d’Auria V (2023) Appropriating aid and its multiple histories. ABE Journal, 22. View this article in WRRO
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. View this article in WRRO
le Roux H (2022) Earth versus FIFA: resisting globalisation on the open pitch. Architectural Design, 92(6), 54-61. View this article in WRRO
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.
Roux HL (2020) Comfort, violence, care: decolonising tropical architecture at Blida, 1956. ABE Journal, 17. View this article in WRRO
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. View this article in WRRO
le Roux H (2018) SWARTBERG HOUSE: WHITE ARCHITECTURE IN THE POST-SIMPLE MOMENT. ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA(89), 42-51.
le Roux H (2017) Bunna without borders: coffee/making as a relational space. Architecture and Culture, 5(3), 463-474. View this article in WRRO
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.

Book chapters

le Roux H (2025) Zebra Attack: Pancho Guedes, the 'Buedes' Mural In Brenchat-Aguilar A (Ed.), As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture (pp. 51-59). London: New Catalyst Books.
Le Roux H (2023) Heritage is moving, Things Don T Really Exist Until You Give Them A Name Unpacking Urban Heritage (pp. 76-85).
le Roux H (2022) Binding freedom in a dissertation, 1974 In Harriss H, Salama AM & Gonzalez Lara A (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South (pp. 87-100). Routledge View this article in WRRO
le Roux H (2022) 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. View this article in WRRO
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 View this article in WRRO
le Roux H (2022) Circulating asbestos: The International AC Review, 1956-1985 In Förster K (Ed.), Environmental Histories of Architecture (pp. 6-1). Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture. View this article in WRRO
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
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).

Book reviews

Le Roux H () Common Ground. Bulletin KNOB, 53-55.

Other

Roux HL (2025) Introduction: Women in Architecture in Africa.
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.