education
2017/2018 Habilitation à Maîtrise d’Œuvre en Nom Propre, HMONP,
Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture - France
2013/2016 Master Architecture, Ecole Spéciale architecture - France
2012/2013 MA Masters Fine Arts, Cambridge School of Art - UK
2010 Photography & Photoshop Summer School, University of the Arts London - UK
2009/2012 BSc Bachelor in Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University – UK
professional experiences
2023 MoMA New York – Research on Post Independence buildings – Cotonou, Porto-Novo
2023 Africa Design School (ADS), Cotonou, Bénin - Tutor
2021-Present Sah Studio – Cotonou - Multi-disciplinary studio, Architect, Principal
2017-2020 Koffi et Diabaté - Abidjan - Cotonou
2015 Graal architecture - Paris - Intern Architect
2014 Digicao - Dakar - Intern Architect
fellowships
2023 Prince Claus Building Beyond
exhibitions
2019 African Mobility Not a refugee Camp, Architekturmuseum, with Issa Diabaté
Architecture Museum Munich by Mpho Matsipa.
2019 CFAO Revealling - Scenography. CFAO Motors Abidjan
2016 Asunsìon: Extrapolations Métropolitaines by Reza Azard. 14th Venise Biennale 2014 and Recyclart Bruxelles 2016
2014 Re_Camera Obscura Ecole Spéciale d’architecture by Edouard Cabay - Paris
2013 Incubala- Space is sign- Anglia Ruskin Cambridge Gallery
projects
2022 Design of an art gallery, 768 m² in Ouidah, Bénin
2019 Design of mix-use building , 1800m² Cotonou, Bénin (ongoing)
2022 of Ecolodge in Dabou, Ivory Coast (ongoing)
2024 of Home by the Lake, Porto Novo (ongoing)
2023 Villa by the Sea, Cotonou (ongoing)
2023 Yatch Club 1Ha Cotonou (Ongoing)
research
2019 Softnessdouce - Writing, furniture design and photography project
2022 Informality in public Space- Research and Kiosk Implementation with the Prince Claus, Building Beyond initiative Prince Claus Building Beyond
2023 Dahomey Palace’s Ipseity - Research (ongoing)
2023 Habiter Cotonou - Research (ongoing)
publications
2023 Building African Futures: 10 Manifestos for Transformative Architecture and Urbanism edited by Prof Julia Gallagher of SOAS, London
2019 Something We African Got - African Architects - In and out of Africa
2019 Something we African Got - 16th Venice Architecture Biennale Review
2016 Rethinking West African Cities Master Thesis
conferences and symposiums
2023 Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam - Prince Claus Fund, the Creative Industries Fund NL -(Re)imagining the future of African cities with Rem Koolhaas
2023 La biennale Di Venezia Carnival, Venise- 4 September Carnival Event - Building Afican future Launch
2023 Paris Institut Fiminco - Rest, Play, Research: embracing research as praxis
2022 Hello Sunday - Being a Young female West- African architect
2022 Africans Future Institutes (AFI) Reimagining African futures through transformative urbanism and architecture, Accra
2022 UEMOA-Banque Mondiale - Centre d’excellence de l’habitat. Ouagadougou
2017 Lisbon - Conference for African Urban Planning, University of Lisbon