Dr Hannah Le Roux (she/her)

PhD

School of Architecture and Landscape

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Climate

Co-Director of Postgraduate Research

Hannah le Roux
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H.K.leRoux@sheffield.ac.uk
Arts Tower

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Dr Hannah Le Roux
School of Architecture and Landscape
Arts Tower
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
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Hannah le Roux is an architect, educator and theorist.

Her work revisits the modernist project in architecture, and considers how its transformation through the agency of Africa presents a conceptual model for contemporary design. Her curation of exhibitions in Johannesburg, Venice, Brussels and Rotterdam engaged with the spatialities of diaspora coffee ceremonies and the soccer culture of earth fields through design research, and designed alterations to modernist buildings and public spaces in Johannesburg.

From 2022-2023 she was Guest Professor at the gta, ETH Zurich and a Senior Fellow at Collegium Helveticum. In 2017 she was selected as a Canadian Centre for Architecture / Mellon research fellow on Architecture and the Environment, and as a Fulbright Principal Candidate for an African Research Scholarship. She was the Area Editor for Africa for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015.

Qualifications

BArch, MArch, PhD, Registered Architect (South Africa)

Research interests

Modern architecture and its afterlives; African urban transformation; Post-mining landscapes

Publications

Journal articles

  • Kohlberger M, le Roux H & Avermaete T (2025) . Planning Perspectives.
  • le Roux H (2024) . Architectural Theory Review, 28(3), 508-510.
  • le Roux H (2024) CINVA to Siyabuswa: The unruly path of global self-help housing [De CINVA a Siyabuswa: el trayecto errtico de la vivienda de autoayuda global]. ARQ(116), 86-105.
  • Roux HL & d’Auria V (2023) . ABE Journal, 22.
  • Woudstra R & le Roux H (2022) . Architectural Theory Review, 26(3), 427-457.
  • le Roux H (2022) . Architectural Design, 92(6), 54-61.
  • le Roux H (2022) . The Journal of African History, 63(2), 257-258.
  • Roux HL (2020) . ABE Journal, 17.
  • le Roux H (2020) . Art Journal, 79(1), 114-116.
  • le Roux H (2019) . Journal of Southern African Studies, 45(2), 273-301.
  • le Roux H (2018) SWARTBERG HOUSE: WHITE ARCHITECTURE IN THE POST-SIMPLE MOMENT. ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA(89), 42-51.
  • le Roux H (2017) . Architecture and Culture, 5(3), 463-474.
  • le Roux H (2017) . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 72(3), 307-308.
  • le Roux H (2014) . Journal of Architectural Education, 68(2), 160-161.
  • Le Roux H (2012) Adside attraction. Architectural Record, 200(8), 72-74.
  • Barac M, Bremner L, Le Roux H & Lokko L (2007) Great expectations. Architectural Review(1324), 36-39.
  • Roux HL (2004) . Architectural History, 47, 361-392.
  • Roux HL (2004) . Social Identities, 10(4), 439-453.
  • le Roux H (2003) . The Journal of Architecture, 8(3), 337-354.
  • le Roux H & Morojele M (2003) . The Journal of Architecture, 8(2), 265-272.

Book chapters

  • le Roux H (2025) Zebra Attack: Pancho Guedes, the 'Buedes' Mural In Brenchat-Aguilar A (Ed.), As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture (pp. 51-59). London: New Catalyst Books.
  • Le Roux H (2023) Heritage is moving, Things Don T Really Exist Until You Give Them A Name Unpacking Urban Heritage (pp. 76-85).
  • le Roux H (2022) In Harriss H, Salama AM & Gonzalez Lara A (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South (pp. 87-100). Routledge
  • le Roux H (2022) Southern fragments of Swiss asbestos-cement, 1940-2040 In Aprea S, Navone N, Stalder L & Nichols S (Ed.), Concrete in Switzerland: Histories from the Recent Past (pp. 173-186). Lausanne: EPFL Press.
  • le Roux H & Hecht G (2022) Bad Earth In Axel N, Barber D, Hirsch N & Vidokle A (Ed.), Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change e-Flux Architecture and University of Minnesota Press
  • le Roux H (2022) Circulating asbestos: The International AC Review, 1956-1985 In Förster K (Ed.), Environmental Histories of Architecture (pp. 6-1). Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture.
  • le Roux H (2021) , Architectural Education Through Materiality (pp. 68-81). Routledge
  • le Roux H (2021) , Rethinking Global Modernism (pp. 233-250). Routledge
  • Roux HL (2017) In Mueller B (Ed.), [APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS De Gruyter
  • le Roux H (2014) The Ethiopian Quarter, CHANGING SPACE, CHANGING CITY: JOHANNESBERG AFTER APARTHIED (pp. 498-505).
  • Le Roux H (2006) , Narrating Architecture A Retrospective Anthology (pp. 379-397).

Book reviews

  • Le Roux H () . Bulletin KNOB, 53-55.

Other

  • Roux HL (2025) .
  • Le Roux H (2012) Nike Football Training Centre, Soweto, South Africa. Architectural Record, 200(3), 75-76.
Grants
  • Longue Durée of WEF in post-extraction landscapes: Learning from Gauteng and Limpopo Regions to develop an interdisciplinary approach. 2022-06 to 2025-06 | National Research Foundation (Pretoria , ZA)
  • British architecture and the space of the mines. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University (London, GB) (2019)
  • Inverting Township Imaginaries. 2018-01 to 2020-12 | National Research Foundation (Pretoria, ZA)
  • Southern African foundations of spatial culture. 2017-11 to 2019-10 | Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (Cambridge, MA, US)
Teaching interests

PhD supervision in: histories of modernism and development in the Global South; reparative design; professional transformation; gender in architecture.