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Meet the Speakers /Arch. Florence Nyole
Arch. Florence Nyole (Her/She)
President, Architectural Association of Kenya
Florence Nyole is a registered architect and environmental designer with over 12 years experience in private practice. She currently runs an architectural practice in Nairobi, Kenya known as EcoSpace Architects Ltd and serves as the President of the Architectural Association of Kenya leading the advocacy for 8 professions that make up the the Association and the Built Environment at large. As a leader she has served as the President of the East Africa Institute of Architects for 2020/2021 session.
Previously, she worked at Waweru and Associates Architects, the first indigenously owned architectural firm in Kenya which is now more than 50 years old and has experience in both high‐end and low‐cost sustainable architectural design working with communities to bring about social change using built forms. She has won an award for her work in the design of Mara Girls Leadership School as the Best Educational Project during AAK Duracoat Awards of Excellence in 2017.
She has used this experience ad part of Classroom Africa program under the African Wildlife Foundation to develop and maintain schools across various landscapes in African countries including D. R. Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. She is also in academia and was a Tutorial Fellow at the University of Nairobi from 2015-2021 and won an award for leadership in Academia from Women in Real Estate during International Women’s Day in 2021.