Okoye lectures at University of Virginia

Professor Ikem ​S. Okoye gave a lecture at the University of Virginia titled "A Glare from African History: Contemporary Euro/American Architecture and a Hole in the Road at Onitsha," to a joint audience of the McIntire Department of Art's Linder Center for Art History, and the School of Architecture. The following morning, he led a joint seminar of graduate students in Art History and History of Architecture. The lecture explored how, for a West African city and its vicinity (Onitsha) famed as much in the 1920s as today for its vanguard modern and contemporary artists and architects, a mere pothole in a road at the outskirts of the city has, instead, become theoretical anchor for influential contemporary American and European architectural theory.