Oluwole Olumuyiwa

Oluwole Olumuyiwa (1929–2000) was a Nigerian architect.^[2]

Oluwole Olumuyiwa
Born	1929 Nigeria
Died	1999 Switzerland
Nationality	Nigerian
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Occupation	Architect
Parent(s)	Claudius Babington Olumuyiwa and Ernestina Omolola Olumuyiwa (nee Johnson)
Practice	Oluwole Olumuyiwa and Associates
Buildings	Eko Hotel and Suites Crusader House, Lagos Management House, Lagos Teacher's Reference Library, Lagos
Projects	UAC Housing Developments, Lagos Cultural Centre, Lagos^[1]

Career

Oluwole studied Architecture and City Planning at the University of Manchester from 1949 to 1954, earning a First Class degree. He had four years of post qualification training in several European firms such as Architects Co-Partnership in London, the office of Van den Broek and Bakema in Rotterdam, the new town developments in Emmen (the Netherlands), Stevenage (England) and in Switzerland. He also gained practical training in hospital planning.^[3][4][5] Oluwole was the first Nigerian graduate of Architecture to return to Nigeria from abroad in 1958 and set up a practice; Oluwole Olumuyiwa and Associates in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1960. He was the first President of Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON).^[6] Oluwole was co-director of Africa's first architectural review "The West African Builder and Architect". He was Nigeria's delegate to the CAA conference in 1964 and subsequently became President of the Association.^[7] He was also involved in residential and public architecture; designing many of Nigeria's new buildings at the time, particularly schools.

Selected projects

• Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos
• Management House, Idowu Taylor Street, Lagos.
• Administrative building, Lagos
• Crusader House (multistorey commercial building in Martin's street, Lagos.)^[8][9][10]
• UAC Housing Developments, Lagos^[11]
• Teacher's Reference Library, Lagos
• Community Center, Lagos^[12]

References

1. Robert Bersson; A. Ojomo (2004). Responding to Art: Form, Content, and Context. The Architecture of Oluwole Olumuyiwa. McGraw-Hill. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-697-2581-99.
2. Architectural History. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (Pennsylvania State University). 2004.
3. Oluwole Olumuyiwa. Oxford Art Online. Grove Art Online. August 1996. ISBN 978-1-884-4460-54.
4. Leland M. Roth; Amanda Roth Clark (2013). Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meanings. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-813-3490-39.
5. Liane Lefaivre; Alexander Tzonis (2012). Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization: Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World. Routledge. p. 170. ISBN 9780415575782.
6. "About ARCON". Architects Registration Council of Nigeria. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
7. Jiat-Hwee Chang (2016). A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience. Routledge. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-317-4956-80.
8. Hanna le Roux (2004). "Building on the Boundary – Modern Architecture in the Tropics" (PDF). Social Identities. University of the Witwatersrand. 10. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
9. B Prucnal Ogunsote. "The International Style in Nigeria" (PDF). Journal of Environmental Technology. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
10. John Julius Norwich (1975). Great Architecture of the World. A Da Capo Press (Pe4rseus Books Group). p. 271. ISBN 9780306804366.
11. Hannah Le Roux (2004). "Modern Architecture in Post-Colonial Ghana and Nigeria". Architectural History. SAHGB Publications Limited. 47: 361–392. doi:10.1017/S0066622X00001805. JSTOR 1568827.
12. Udo Kultermann (1969). New directions in African architecture. G. Braziller. p. 54.