Tuliza Sindi

Tuliza Sindi is an architecture educator, researcher, practitioner and curator based between the U.S. and South Africa. She founded the graduate design-research studio Unit 19 (2020-22) at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture (GSA), held the 2023-25 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon Architecture, and is currently the School’s Curator for Public Programs and Director of Publications.

In 2022, she co-founded cross-disciplinary architecture collective room19isaFactory. with three Unit 19 graduates. Through the typological practice she terms “Unreasonable Architecture,” she attempts to suspend design approaches to “land” as defined by modern reason, chronopolitics and property regimes through the practice of architecture as cosmological wall-making.