Sitou Akolly
Sitou is a Togolese American Architect, a modern Renaissance man passionate about all traits of creative and critical thinking. He grew up in San Francisco where he pursued an education in architecture, earning 3 degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning, Masters in Robotics / Digital Craft, Masters in Theory and History of Architecture from CCA. In 2017, being top finalist of the IE Architecture+ Prize competition, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid, where he completed his third Master’s degree in Strategic Design of Spaces.
He completed notable projects in fashion, art, social impact, rapid prototyping as a freelancer, and worked with respected studios such as MATSYS, Future Cities Lab, and Cheng+Snyder. Upon graduating from the MSD in March 2018, he moved to Amsterdam to work as a computational designer at UNStudio.