Ama Ofori-Darko is an architect and researcher exploring design at the intersection of community, faith and diasporic identity. Her practice was cultivated on the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Cambridge, where she began ongoing research on the urban condition of churches within London’s African and Caribbean populations. She has also studied at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association, driving her interest in how academia can broaden its canon to acknowledge forms of knowledge that may be overlooked, in a bid to empower architectural education’s increasingly diverse student body. 

At present, Ama is a Project Architect at Studio Gil, working on the renovation of a church and community asset located in North London. Outside of practice, she is a contributor on the Church of England’s Net Zero & Building Services Committee - the national body tasked with ensuring the Church of England’s building portfolio meets its environmental commitments by the year 2045.

She is also a member of the team at Black Females in Architecture (BFA), a grassroots organisation advocating for greater equity within the design industry, working for them on a consultancy basis. Within this role, she was invited with them as a participant to the 2023 Venice Biennale, managing delivery of their contribution to the exhibition and is currently project managing BFA’s second, research lead exhibition located in Accra, Ghana in collaboration with Ɛdan.