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James Inedu-George (born 28 February 1981) is a Nigerian architect and writer. He co-founds HTL Africa, Tao South Africa and HTL Asia. In 2017, he was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Early life and education
James was born and raised in Zazzau (now called Zaria) in Kaduna state. He attended Therbow secondary school before proceeding to Ahmadu Bello University where he badged B.Sc and master's degree in architecture. In 2020, He resided as an African architect for the University of Florida fellowship.
Career
= 2003-2008
=James started working as a designer with ITEX furniture for the 2003 Nigerian presidential inauguration furniture. He began exploring how to create sustainable architectural language that led to the development of a house that addressed current housing deficit issues, created jobs, and improved the lives of its residents. In 2008, James started a research-based innovation practice in West Africa which led to the Fourth Mainland Bridge, Lagos: An Absence of Systems Exhibition in 2009, 44.86 VGC house and the Guaranty Trust Bank twist cube.
= 2011-2015
=In 2011, Inedu-George participated in the Who is Who in White Space, an Exhibition of Emergent Lagos Architects where he spoke on solutions to housing and flooding issues in Nigeria.
In 2015, he designed one of the first green buildings in Nigeria – Greenwall on Military Street Lagos and opened Tao South Africa, an architecture research firm in Johannesburg, South Africa.
= 2016-2018
=In 2016, He developed "Affordacity" which was called the future of African cities. The exhibition was sponsored by the Goethe institute, Nigeria and the German government. In 2017, He participated in the first Biennale d'architectured'Orleans in Orleans, France presenting a book with the title, "An Interruptive Manifesto" which spoke against the economy of aids in Africa and a creative architecture of adaptive reuse in African cities.
In 2018, Inedu-George gave a TEDX talk called "The invention of isiewu".
= 2019-2021
=In 2019, He exhibited the "Miracle room" alongside HTL team during the 2019 Lagos biennale. He was the African Architect in residence at the University of Florida in 2020 and a curator for the ArchiAfrika Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture. In 2021, he founded HTL Asia to influence design and research in Middle east and Asia.
HTL Architecture
In 2008, He founded the architectural firm called HTL firstly initially based in Nigeria and working within Africa. It was regarded as a producing theory and building work in West Africa. Since establishment has featured in projects including; 8 Bridge (2011) and Lagos: An Absence of Systems (2009) exhibited at Goethe Institut Lagos, Nigeria.
Lectures
= Architectural views
=Performativeness
The Cross, the Mask, and the Frame: A MegaCity Story
= Writing
=Lagos roads and the death of real innovation
The green wall of Africa, 2017
= An African conquering the World podcast
=James is the host of an African conquering the world podcast.
Santa Barbara: The Museum City
Modernism
Notable Projects
Pan African Museum, Accra
Affordacity
GTB twist cube- Lawanson, Lagos
Transcorp event center, Abuja
Green Wall Onikan, Lagos
Amity Compact House Lagos, Nigeria
Awards and recognition
In 2017, he was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
References
Further reading
Dietrich Neumann; Margaret Maile Petty; Sandy Isenstadt, eds. (2014). Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317602538.
External links
About James Inedu-George on Chartered Institute of Administration CIA, Lagos.
SA+P Spring 2023 Lecture Series | James Inedu-George at Morgan State University
Lecture of James Inedu-George on YouTube
