Cabo Verde: Patricia (Patti) Anahory

Patti Anahory, a Cabo Verdean architect, holds a bachelor’s in architecture from Boston Architectural College in Boston, Massachusetts, and a master’s in architecture from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. She received the Rotch Traveling Scholarship in 2000, becoming the first Black person and second woman to receive the prize since its establishment in 1883; she was also the first recipient to use the award to travel to sub-Saharan Africa. Anahory is a co-founder of Storia na Lugar, an experimental and multidisciplinary storytelling platform that documents and analyzes the impact of rapid urban growth in Cabo Verde; a co-founder of her(e), otherwise, a collaborative platform that invites African and diaspora women architects to interrogate the socio-political context of the built environment; and a co-founder of XU Collective, an interdisciplinary art collective that analyzes the intersection of urbanism, architecture, and the environment through an interdisciplinary lens.

Anahory was the founding director of CIDLOT (2009–2012), a multidisciplinary research center at the University of Cabo Verde, and is currently Deputy Director of the African Futures Institute (May 2025–). She received a Graham Foundation grant for co-curating her(e), otherwise (2022); co-authored the book Panorama da Arquitetura Habitacional em Cabo Verde/Panorama of Dwelling Architecture in Cabo Verde (2022); was selected as an alternate for the WOJR-Civitella Ranieri Foundation Architecture Prize (2022); and exhibited, with César Schofield Cardoso, in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia (2021).