Mamy Tall from Senegal is part of our series of profiles of architects, spatial designers and builders shaping West Africa's architectural future
Mamy Tall explains: ‘I have always been passionate about architecture, I have always imagined it as a humanistic profession.
Her creative endeavours share a common thread: Tall’s passion for solving problems, and applying architecture and design towards offering solutions to key social and urbanistic issues of our times, such as ‘urban development, the absence of an architectural identity, the non-use of local materials, and the progressive disappearance of heritage’, she explains.
One of her most recent independent works, an exhibition titled ‘Doxantu’, for the Dakar Biennale 2022, looks at the concept of a roundabout, creating a large-scale installation for such a site within the capital. Tall recognises the display as a key breakthrough project for her young studio. It is built around a dry garden featuring a baobab tree and a paved surface. Here, Tall invited artists, such as Gorgui Mbaye and weaver Issaka Bonkoungou, to enrich the space with site-specific creations.
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