Architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum have been named on the list of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine.
The architects are included alongside world leaders, artists and sports stars in the annually published list of people the US magazine judges as the world's most influential.
Called a "force of nature" in her citation, Lokko is listed in the pioneers section of the list, while Tabassum, who is described as an architect who "cares for her creations", is included in the innovators section.
"Her extraordinary trajectory eviscerates the old world"
Ghanaian-Scottish architect Lokko curated last year's Venice Architecture Biennale and recently won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. American filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who wrote her citation, said she was "dazzled by her brilliance and focus" when she met the architect. In DuVernay's citation, she drew attention to the impact that Lokko was having on the architecture world.

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"Her extraordinary trajectory eviscerates the old world that had maintained a dominant perspective in architecture ? one that she calls 'a singular, exclusive voice, whose reach and power ignores huge swathes of humanity... as though we have been listening and speaking in one tongue only'," wrote DuVernay.
"Now, we hear hers. Lesley creates new l...