ARC. PROF.-JOHN-OWUSU-ADDO

~ Born in 1928 in the British colony of the Gold Coast, Professor Owusu Addo won a scholarship to study Architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic in 1952. After qualifying as an architect in 1958, Professor Owusu Addo returned to a newly independent Ghana where he worked with Kenneth Scott to develop Tropical Modernism, a place-based and naturally ventilated and appropriately oriented style of architecture of vital importance in developing sustainable architectural solutions. In 1961, Professor Owusu Addo was invited to design and build large parts of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), now part of Westminster’s Global Partner Network. He later became the KNUST’s first Ghanaian Head of the Architecture Department before becoming Dean of the Faculty in 1978 and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University until 1982. ~

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