About Us

Ule-Ona is a place of cultural architecture having ornamentation as the indigenous genetic code of identity. This is an architect-in-residence hybrid centre aimed at an interdisciplinary (architects, creative arts, structural engineers, software engineers, art historians, sociologists, etc.), engaging discourse on the interplay of indigenous Art in defining the Architecture of the Yoruba people through ornamentation.

The programme avails iconic ideas significant to the core values of the Ule-Ona to present ingenious underlying principles to a filtered circle of intellectuals and the local in the presence of emerging youths and practitioners.

Ule-Ona is a place of history, architecture, art and heritage studies in spatial experimental fields of landscape conceptualisation and urban planning.

It is designed to produce an active engagement of interns with the resident architect and guest artists through debates, seminars, lectures, workshops and modelling, culminating in the production of samples through the local practitioners in Arts and Crafts in the Osogbo environs and beyond.

Generated ideas are further incubated towards product design in parametric architecture and fabrication for trials and use.