“[Pink Heart Shape]”
| Title | “[Pink Heart Shape]” |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Lokko, Lesley [Naa Norle], and Smith, Maria |
| Secondary Authors | Attlee, Edwina, and Harper, Phineas |
| Secondary Title | Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture |
| Pagination | 104-11 |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale |
| Place Published | London |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-9996462-3-3 |
| Keywords | English author, Female author, Ghanaian author, Scottish author, South African author, US author |
| Annotation | The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances. |
| Holding Institutions | DLC |
| Author Note | The female author was born in Scotland of Ghanaian parentage, raised in Ghana, educated in England where she earned a PhD in Architecture. She taught architecture in the United States, England, and South Africa, where she founded the Graduate School of Architecture, the only such school in Africa. In 2019, she was appointed Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City University of New York, but she resigned in 2020. |
| Full Text | 2019 Lokko, Lesley [Naa Norle]. “[Pink Heart Shape].” Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture. Ed. Edwina Attlee, Phineas Harper, and Maria Smith (London: The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale, 2019), 104-11. DLC The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances. The female author was born in Scotland of Ghanaian parentage, raised in Ghana, educated in England where she earned a PhD in Architecture. She taught architecture in the United States, England, and South Africa, where she founded the Graduate School of Architecture, the only such school in Africa. In 2019, she was appointed Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City University of New York, but she resigned in 2020. |
