Ekwueme to speak at architects’ premier lecture

The lecture to be delivered by past presidents of the institute is meant to kick-start activities of the year. Former Vice President Alex Ekwueme who was the second president of the institute between 1967 and 1968 will deliver the first lecture entitled “Architecture Management and Participation of Architects in Nigeria’s Political Process”.Ekwueme, a founding member […]

The lecture to be delivered by past presidents of the institute is meant to kick-start activities of the year.
Former Vice President Alex Ekwueme who was the second president of the institute between 1967 and 1968 will deliver the first lecture entitled “Architecture Management and Participation of Architects in Nigeria’s Political Process”.
Ekwueme, a founding member of the institute, founded one of the first wholly indigenous firms of architects which became the biggest in Africa.
According to NIA president Arc Waheed Niyi Brimmo, the lecture is part of NIA’s “commitment to raise debates on key issues affecting the nation’s built environment.”
He said the lecture will project architectural perspectives of critical local, national and international issues and challenges, promote advocacies that project architecture and architects, create requisite rapport with policy makers and patrons of architecture, celebrate the institute’s collective history, encourage necessary bonding across generations and classes of members.
The lecture would have been held in February but for national political activities including the general elections resulting in the shift of the event to this month.
The event which will feature exhibition of works will be preceded by the institute’s executive council meeting and pre-lecture cocktail on Wednesday.
NIA, founded on April 1st, 1960 currently has 32 state chapters.