Althea Peacock

Althea Peacock is a founding partner and co-director of her Johannesburg-based practice, LEMONpebble Architects and Urban Designers. She graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand and is a professional architect based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her practice has executed projects in both the public and private sectors, ranging from university and educational buildings, housing projects, corporate and public buildings, urban development frameworks, to private homes of various scales and in multiple contexts. As a researcher, Peacock is deeply engaged in exploring the experience of being a black woman architect and its implications for discourses on identity, marginalized and erased histories, archival practices, feminist practice, and spatial politics. She is particularly interested in how these themes manifest and are explored in the projects and built infrastructures produced by her practice. Peacock’s experience as a guest critic at various universities, working with undergrad and postgrad students for over a decade, feeds back into her practice and writing, which promotes critical spatial thinking and spatial justice. Peacock serves as advisor to the board of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA).