Hannah Le Roux

Dr Hannah Le Roux is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Landscape, University of Sheffield. Her work interrogates modernist architecture through post-colonial and African urban transformation lenses, focusing on decolonial design practices and the legacies of apartheid spatiality. She has curated major exhibitions on diaspora coffee ceremonies and earth soccer fields, and her research spans post-mining landscapes, tropical architecture, and reparative urban strategies.

• Education: BArch, MArch, PhD. Registered Architect (South Africa)
• Research Interests: Modernist afterlives, African urbanism, post-mining landscapes, decolonial pedagogy
• Teaching: PhD supervision in Global South modernism, reparative design, gender in architecture

Her publications address the transnational flows of architectural modernism, particularly in West Africa and the Global South. Recent works explore the intersection of climate history, material toxicity, and post-colonial critique. Awards include the Canadian Centre for Architecture/Mellon Research Fellowship and Fulbright Principal Candidate status.

• Grants
  • Longue Durée of WEF in post-extraction landscapes (2022–2025)
  • British architecture and the space of the mines (2019)
  • Inverting Township Imaginaries (2018–2020)