Mae-ling Lokko is an Assistant Professor at Yale’s School of Architecture whose research on agrowaste and renewable biobased materials explores the development of integrated material life cycles and intersectoral value chains. Her research focuses on the invention, design and evaluation of low-carbon biobased material systems. Through her work, Lokko explores themes of “generative justice” through the development of models of distributed production and intersectoral collaboration.
Lokko has taught at Cooper Union and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she was an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) and Director of the Building Sciences Program. Lokko holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science in Architectural Science from the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, RPI, and a B.A from Tufts University.
Her work was nominated for the Visible Award 2019, Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2020 and she was a finalist for the Hublot Design Prize 2019. Her current research is funded by the United National Environment Program and the SOM Foundation Research Prize, and in the recent past by the British Council, MIT’s Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, the Luma Foundation, Housing the Human 2019 and the NYSERDA-NEXUS Clean Energy Accelerator Program.
Lokko’s recent works have been globally exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm; Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands; 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennial, Estonia; Serralves Museum, Portugal; Museum of the Future, Dubai; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium; Sonsbeek Biennial, Netherlands; Triennale Milano, Italy; Somerset House, London; Radialsystem, Berlin, Luma Foundation, Arles, 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, Rhode Island School of Design and at the Royal Institute of British Architects-North. Her work and writing has been featured in ICON Magazine, eFlux, Blueprint, Wallpaper, MOLD Magazine, Frieze Magazine, RIBA Journal, DOMUS, DAMN Magazine, and other global design publications.
She is the founder of Willow Technologies, Ltd. based in Accra, Ghana that partners with industry to transform agrowastes into affordable biobased material applications including building materials, soil remediation and water treatment applications.
United Nations Environment Programme
Yale CEA joins UNEP's Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction in Releasing Updates towards Zero Emission Futures for the Built Environment
Naomi Keena, Marco Raugei, Mae-ling Lokko, Mohamed Aly Etman, Vicky Achnani, Barbara Reck, Anna Dyson (2022)
Energies (2022)
Mae-Ling Lokko, Anna Dyson, Alexandra Rempel (2017)
PLEA 2016 Los Angeles: Towards Regenerative Environments (2017)
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Mae-ling Lokko is an Assistant Professor at Yale’s School of Architecture whose research on agrowaste and renewable biobased materials explores the development of integrated material life cycles and intersectoral value chains. Her research focuses on the invention, design and evaluation of low-carbon biobased material systems. Through her work, Lokko explores themes of “generative justice” through the development of models of distributed production and intersectoral collaboration.
Lokko has taught at Cooper Union and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she was an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) and Director of the Building Sciences Program. Lokko holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science in Architectural Science from the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology, RPI, and a B.A from Tufts University.
Her work was nominated for the Visible Award 2019, Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2020 and she was a finalist for the Hublot Design Prize 2019. Her current research is funded by the United National Environment Program and the SOM Foundation Research Prize, and in the recent past by the British Council, MIT’s Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, the Luma Foundation, Housing the Human 2019 and the NYSERDA-NEXUS Clean Energy Accelerator Program.
Lokko’s recent works have been globally exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm; Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands; 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennial, Estonia; Serralves Museum, Portugal; Museum of the Future, Dubai; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Belgium; Sonsbeek Biennial, Netherlands; Triennale Milano, Italy; Somerset House, London; Radialsystem, Berlin, Luma Foundation, Arles, 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, Rhode Island School of Design and at the Royal Institute of British Architects-North. Her work and writing has been featured in ICON Magazine, eFlux, Blueprint, Wallpaper, MOLD Magazine, Frieze Magazine, RIBA Journal, DOMUS, DAMN Magazine, and other global design publications.
She is the founder of Willow Technologies, Ltd. based in Accra, Ghana that partners with industry to transform agrowastes into affordable biobased material applications including building materials, soil remediation and water treatment applications.
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