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I am designing and managing projects one space, one lesson, one conversation at a time.
Oluyemisi Awoniyi is growing as a designer, a voice, and a woman finding her footing in the built environment.
“I am on a mission to shape spaces that are sustainable, efficient and ready for the future, and to build a career that opens the way for others. I’m walking this path in the open, still learning, one step at a time.”
Twenty-five years, two countries: from architecture school in Ile-Ife to retrofit and decarbonisation work in the United Kingdom, drawn in the order it happened.
2001 to 2023
2023 onwards
Professional bodies and certifications in Nigeria, the UK and the US.
ARCON
Architects Registration Council of Nigeria
MNIA
Nigerian Institute of Architects
ACIAT
Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
MAPM
Association for Project Management
GBCN
Green Building Council of Nigeria
LEED GA
US Green Building Council
PRINCE2
Practitioner
Good architecture listens twice: once to the climate and culture it grows from, and once to the data that tells us how well it performs. I design at the meeting point of both, so the path to Net Zero stays rooted in place and people.
CompletedOgun State Government · Lead architect and project manager
CompletedCathedral Church of St Paul, Sagamu · Construction supervision as technical committee secretary (voluntary)
CompletedOgun State Government · Lead architect and project manager
Completed 2025Spacevibes Limited · Lead architect and project manager
Planning grantedSpacevibes Limited (designed from Nigeria) · Design and planning drawings
The Guardian, 4 July 2026
Priscilla Iwedike on the drawings and climate-led proposals I showed with the Nigerian Institute of Architects, Lagos Chapter.
Five projects were selected for exhibition with the Nigerian Institute of Architects, Lagos Chapter.
I led a five-person team into the Kaira Looro ideas competition: a rural community centre organised like a gathering under a baobab.
I exhibited sustainable design work in London, putting African vernacular ways of building beside contemporary materials.
I’m still learning, and I still lean on mentors who have walked further than I have.
But I’ve found that you don’t need to have arrived to help someone else find their way in. Some of the most useful guidance I’ve received came from people only a few steps ahead of me. They shared a drawing tip on site, gave honest feedback at a jury, or answered a question I was too nervous to ask in the room. I try to pass that on in the same spirit, not as an expert with all the answers, but as someone a little further along the same path. Whether I’m reviewing student work, sharing what I’m figuring out in a new country, or simply being visible, I hope it makes the way in a little clearer for the next person. We grow faster when we grow together, and I’m walking this path in public so others can walk it with me.