IN THE NEWS: Manful shares teaching approach, daily routine with Madame Architect

Taubman College’s Kuukuwa Manful was recently interviewed by Madame Architect as part of a day-in-the-life series with practicing architects. Manful, assistant professor of architecture, broke down her daily routine and approach to teaching, and also provided a glimpse into working life for architects within academia.

Madame Architect is a digital magazine and media startup dedicated to female professionals in the world of cities and design. The magazine promotes and interviews professionals from a variety of occupations, including architects, engineers, designers, and policy makers. 

A trained architect, researcher, and writer, Manful has built a career creating, researching, and documenting architecture in Africa. She runs Accra Archive, which preserves endangered architectural archives; curates adanisem — a Ghanaian architecture documentation collective; runs sociarchi — an architecture non-profit; and is president of the Accra, Ghana, chapter of Docomomo.

Manful is currently working on a book about the architecture of education in Ghana and a study on architecture in West Africa using an archive that she recently digitized. In the interview, she also emphasized her strong commitment to work-life balance.

To learn more about Manful’s daily routine, read the full interview at Madame Architect.

Photo by Augustine Owusu-Ansah.