Five adults and four kids from three families, we traverse slabs, scramble in single file up the smooth, dry bottom of a narrow water runnel, and pump out calf muscles walking straight up steep ramps. Cliffs and 300-foot-tall sandstone candlesticks tower around us, in more shades of red than Crayola has yet replicated, glowing in the warm afternoon sunshine of late March. She is a keen gardener, an avid reader and an explorer.We follow a zigzagging line of stone cairns over waves of slickrock in the backcountry of the Needles District of UtahвЂ™s Canyonlands National Park. She has exhibited her work in art, photography & architectureВ at the 1:54 contemporary art fair (London 2016),В artXlagos (Lagos, 2017) and the ANO Gallery (Accra, 2015 & 2017), and has been an adjudicator for the ABSA/ BARCLAYS LвЂ™ATELIERВ competition, 2016. Latifah also works with AfricaBYDesign, volunteers at the Nubuke Foundation and collaborates with ArtHaus. She has had previous work experiences with OMKAS Construction,В ArchiAfrika, Mobius Architecture andВ a period as a teachingВ assistant at Ashesi University's Summer Design School.

LatifahвЂ™s approach and incite into art and architecture allows her to contribute to most projects at mustard from concept through to the delivery of buildings and objects. Her investigation into the blurred lines between art and architecture is drawn from the exploration of form, texture,В nature, technology, human behavior and simplicity and finding theВ balanced interplay between of these elements. She enjoysВ long distance running, tennis and swimming and has participated in the AIM marathon in Accra as well as the Ghana Triathlon.ДЄ graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, Latifah is an all-rounder in the studio exhibiting her talents in photography, architecture, graphic design and all things art in the output of the studio. She has a keen interest in fashion, film, photography, travel and the exploration of unfamiliar territories.

She is also a member of RIBA, ARB, GIA and ARC and theВ current RIBA international council member for the Middle East and Africa.ДЄlice'sВ passion for the arts has led to collaborations with artists and designers such as AMWA Designs in the creation of furniture collectionsВ and co-curating the inaugural Africa by Design exhibition in Accra, Ghana in March 2017.ДЄlice has acted as adjudicator in the Barclays LвЂ™Atelier Art Competition 20. In response to and as a reaction to a growing demand for beautiful spaces and objects by an increasingly discerning clientele in the region, Alice founded MUSTARD, a dynamic boutique studio with young talented architects in Accra, Ghana. Returning to her country of birth in 2012, she was instrumental in the launching of Adjaye Associates Ghana, where as Associate Director of African Projects she managed cutting-edge projects in Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa. A product of Ghanaian and British secondary school education, Alice trained at Nottingham University and at The Bartlett, University College London, before practicing architecture for nearly two decades in the United Kingdom with Foster + Partners and Adjaye Associates.

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