Adefolatomiwa Taiwo Toye

Adefola Toye is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool’s School of Architecture. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a master's in Environmental Design at the University of Lagos. Adefola is a recipient of the 2020 A3-ARCHNET Prize for Writing on African Architectures and a 2021 Student Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). Her PhD research in collaboration with The National Archives, London, focuses on the tropical modernist architecture of Nigeria’s first universities and its role in the development and identity of independent Nigeria.

Source: A3: Archives of African Architectures