Ama Ofori-Darko is an architect and researcher whose work explores design at the intersection of community, faith and African diasporic identity, interrogating how architecture can be used as a vehicle to serve, elevate and add value to communities. 

Her interdisciplinary practice was cultivated on the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Cambridge, where she began her 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.

Alongside working within practice FT Architects, Ama 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 2030.

Between 2022-2024, she was a member of the core team at Black Females in Architecture, a grassroots organisation advocating for greater equity within the design industry. Within this role, she was an invited participant at the 2023 Venice Biennale where she developed the technical design of BFA’s installation for the Curator’s Special Project and contributed to the Biennale’s wider Carnival Event Series.