Jana Ndiaye Berankova
Building the Independence: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Political Thought in Senegal 1960–1989
Jana Ndiaye Berankova is an art and architecture theorist, philosopher, writer, and publisher. She studied art history and comparative literature at the École normale supérieure and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris, France) and architecture at Columbia University, where she completed her PhD dissertation on architecture theory and French philosophy. At the Institute, Berankova will be working on a project focusing on the theoretical discourse on architecture and urban planning between the 1960s and the end of 1980s in Senegal. Together with her husband, she founded a non-profit publishing house Suture Press focusing on carefully designed hardback books on continental philosophy, contemporary art, and architectural theory.