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Elsie Owusu
OBE
Born
Elsie Owusu

Ghana[where?]
Alma materStreatham and Clapham High School
OccupationArchitect
Websitewww.owusu.uk

Elsie Owusu OBE is a Ghana-born British female architect, a founding member and the first chair of the Society of Black Architects.[1][2][3] She is also known to have co-led the refurbishment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2009[1] and worked on Green Park tube station.[2]

Education and career

Owusu attended Streatham and Clapham High School in London.

Previously a partner for 10 years with Fielden+Mawson,[4] she went on to found her own architectural practice, Elsie Owusu Architects.[5] She has been a board member of organizations including Arts Council England, the National Trust of England, and the UK Supreme Court Arts Trust, as well as being a trustee of the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and of the Architectural Association.[6]


Awards

She was voted African Business Woman of the Year in 2014.[7][8]

She received an OBE in the Queen's 2003 Birthday Honours list.

References

  1. ^ a b Adam Lusher (2 December 2015). "Riba run like a racist 'boy's club', says leading female architect". The Independent. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Elsie Owusu OBE". Royal Institute of British Architects. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Elsie Owusu". Architects' Journal. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  4. ^ Richard Waite, "Elsie Owusu leaves Feilden + Mawson", Architects' Journal, 25 October 2015.
  5. ^ "RIBA Role Model: Elsie Owusu", RIBA, Architecture.com.
  6. ^ "Elsie Owusu, Vice-Chair pf the Trustee Board", The London School of Architecture.
  7. ^ "Award Winners 2014", African Enterprise Awards.
  8. ^ "Africa’s Business Woman of the Year, Elsie Owusu offers advice for architects hoping to break into the region", Building Construction Design, 8 December 2014.


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