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Tuliza Sindi is a Burundian-South African architect, educator, researcher, and curator who challenges conventional understandings of land, property, and spatial politics. She founded Unit 19, a graduate design-research studio at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture (2020-2022), fostering innovative design methodologies. Currently, she holds the Ann Kalla Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture (2023-2025), where she serves as Curator of Public Programs and Director of Publications. Sindi's work in architectural education extends internationally, having lectured and reviewed at institutions such as Yale, Columbia, and Iowa State Universities in the U.S. and the University of Sheffield in the U.K. In 2022, she co-founded the cross-disciplinary collective room19isaFactory, which aims to build an intellectual practice vocabulary around the term “Unreasonable Architecture.” Her contributions to curation and advocacy include the co-curation of the architectural exhibition Saison Africa 2020 in Bordeaux, France, and the leading of the 'her(e); otherwise' platform, supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation. Recognized internationally, Sindi has been featured on RebelARCHITETTE’s Women Architects World Map and named one of Africa's 50 influential female architects by Africans Column.
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