Kiran Benning
Kiran Benning is an architectural assistant at rg+p. His writing investigates queer spatialisation, examining how architecture and urbanism intersect with subculture, nightlife, identity, community and belonging. He graduated from the University of Nottingham.
I write to remember all those sick nights out, at that club that was there, where that block of flats is now.
Sam El-Bahja
Sam El-Bahja is a Moroccan–Thai poet, artist and architectural assistant at HTA Design. She graduated from the University of Cambridge, where she won the David Fleming and Robert Rees Prizes. Her design work centres engagement and social equity.
I write to fix the flickering light in my council estate flat.
Serena Faizal
Serena Faizal is an architectural designer at Material Cultures. Her work explores how natural materials and traditional knowledge systems can create localised, bioregional ways of building. She studied at the Architectural Association and the Manchester School of Architecture.
I write to have a future where we can all start raising chickens.
Suaad Jama
Suaad Jama is an architecture student at London Metropolitan University. Her work examines the matrilineal legacy of spatial authorship among Somali women in diaspora, considering how trauma and displacement shape space, memory and belonging.
I write to eavesdrop on buildings when English refuses conversation.
Minsung Son
Minsung Son is an architectural assistant at Allies and Morrison. While studying at the University of Cambridge, his research focused on resident extensions to modern Korean housing. He is interested in the relationship between global modernism and local forms of living.
I write to infiltrate local everydays into capital-A architectural thought.
Ninu Sonuga
Ninu Sonuga is a designer and visual artist. A recent interior design graduate from the Canterbury School of Architecture, he focuses on regenerative design in Sub-Saharan Africa, asking how design practice can be rooted in local systems, materials and social structures.
I write to imagine futures built in materials and methods that architecture school never taught.
Monzie Tan
Monzie Tan is an architectural assistant at Purcell. She graduated from the Architectural Association, where she was an editor for AArchitecture Magazine. Informed by ecological concerns, her interests lie in building conservation, material reuse and practices of care.
I write to convince old buildings that they’ve got life to live, love to give and they will survive.
Nyahalo Tucker
Nyahalo Tucker is an architecture graduate from the University of Cambridge. Her work explores collective memory, archives and overlooked heritage. She has written for the Sierra Leonean magazine 1961 and her films have been exhibited at Four Corners Gallery in London.
I write to dust off narratives tucked away in forgotten corners.
Kyiga Wilberforce
Kyiga Wilberforce is a writer raised between East Sussex and Karnataka. She writes nonfiction on architecture and contemporary life from inside and outside of exile. She values architecture rooted in its land, considering what it’s made of and who it’s made for.
I write to think practically and architecturally about lifestyle propaganda.
