“You need a thick skin” – Tosin Oshinowo talks to BBC on being a Female Architect in Nigeria | WATCH

Our society and world at large is a very patriarchal one, and, in all walks of life, the views and the opinions of women can be dismissed not because they are wrong, but because they are women.

This much is true of architecture, too, as architect Tosin Oshinowo has revealed in an interview with BBC.

Female architects in the country “need a thick skin,” she said, sharing an instance when she cried out of a site because she was being disrespected.

Oshinowo also discussed her style: afro-minimalism, revealing her love for clean lines and minimal but functional designs.

Watch her speak below:

Tosin’s choice of career as an Architect was primarily informed by tendencies indicated at an early stage of life.

She attributes her choice to self-discovery of her creativity, her success in Technical Drawing while in high school, and her innate ability to understand drawings at her tender age of twelve, as well as her exposure to site works accompanying her father to the site when his retirement home was being built.

Photo Credit: tosin.oshinowo