Huda Tayob

Huda Tayob is a South African architectural historian and architectural theorist.

She is currently a Senior Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art, and has previously taught at the University of Manchester, University of Cape Town, the Graduate School of Architecture at University of Johannesburg, and the Bartlett School of Architecture. She holds a PhD from the Bartlett and is a recipient of a RIBA Commendation Award for research. She has been a Mellon Fellow on the Canadian Centre for Architecture project, Centering Africa (2020 – 2022) and has been awarded grants from the Graham Foundation. She received the Scott Opler Award for Emerging Scholars (2019).

Her research focuses on minor, migrant, and subaltern architectures, centered on the African continent and Global South. She is co-curator of the open access curriculum Race, Space & Architecture, and lead curator and project manager of the pan-African digital exhibition, Archive of Forgetfulness. She was a participant in the 18th International Architecture exhibition in Venice (2023) with a project titled Index of Edges, which traces watery archives, methods, and stories along east African coastal edges from Cape Town to Port Said.