Juliet Sakyi-Ansah, ARB, RIBA, AGIA, is the founder of Studio OASA and a registered architect in the UK and Ghana. With over twenty years of experience, she leverages architecture as a tool to drive social and environmental transformation through collaboration and participation. She specialises in revitalising and repurposing existing and neglected spaces to create lasting impact across industry, academia, and communities. 

Currently completing a faculty-funded PhD at Oxford Brookes University, Juliet's research explores BIM-based Community Capacity Building for Participation in Settlement Upgrading in Accra. This builds on her architectural expertise, integrating ethnographic insights, industry methodologies, particularly BIM, and academic grounding. Her academic career includes earning a BA (Hons) and MArch from the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. She later completed the Professional Practice Examination (PPE) through the Architects Registration Council of Ghana and the Ghana Institute of Architects, followed by RIBA Part 3 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. 

Juliet has held roles at architectural practices in Bristol, Accra, and Birmingham, leading and contributing to residential, cultural, educational, financial, office, leisure, and hospitality projects. Her practice experience has given her a broad perspective on architecture’s role in shaping communities and public spaces. Committed to the power of collective action, her explorations centre people and place identity, examining how these elements shape the practice, process, and production of architecture and the built environment. 

Her commitment to fostering architectural discourse began in 2009 when she co-conceived and co-organised the Sheffield School of Architecture’s student-led theory forum on Ecology, an international academic platform for developing a shared architectural language around ecology. She continued shaping academic discussions in 2012 by coordinating The Production of Place conference at the University of East London, exploring the complex ways places are shaped by social, economic, and political forces. In 2019, she launched Narratives publication in London, further amplifying architectural discourse and providing a platform for diverse voices in the field. 

Juliet is the founder of The Architects' Project® and Black in Architecture®, both of which drive equity, inclusivity, and innovation within architecture and the built environment. She activated The Architects' Project's most potent platform, /tap Exchange, fostering dialogue on pressing social and environmental issues in architectural practice and sustainability. She addressed topics such as Remaking Agbogbloshie with Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (2014), Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Development with the Architects Registration Council of Ghana (2014), Transcultural Praxis with London Metropolitan University (2015), and From Memory Comes Place with The Africa Centre in London (2017).

Beyond her professional practice, research, and advocacy, Juliet is deeply engaged in academic teaching. She teaches on the final-year Studio (Design) module for the BA (Hons) Architecture programme at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture and lectures on People, Leadership, and Organisations for the MSc Project Management programme at Oxford Brookes University School of the Built Environment. She coordinated Race in Architectural Education: Decolonising the Curriculum (2021) in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University's Place, Culture, and Identity research group, highlighting critical issues in architectural education and curriculum reform.

As a Time Rebel at CoLab Dudley in 2021, Juliet experimented with her concept of Learn/Play in Dudley, exploring new ways to integrate learning and play within underutilised community spaces. In 2023, she collaborated with the social art practice Workshop24 to co-facilitate their Radio Public Library project in Brierley Hill, fostering community engagement and artistic expression through participatory social art practices.

Juliet's mission is clear: transformative architecture for meaningful impact. 

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