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ONAFOWOKAN MICHAEL OLUTUSEN

Onafowokan Michael Olutusen (1912-1991) is a Nigeria Architect and was one of the pioneers of tropical modernism an architectural design era that took into consideration the climatic condition of the region and designs were made to curtail or utilize the climatic condition through the use of design elements, styles and concepts.

EARLY LIFFE AND EDUCATION

Onafowokan Michael Olutusen was born in Ikorodu, Lagos State Nigeria where he attended the Methodist Primary School Ita-Elewa Ikorodu and St. Peters Primary School Faji-Ajele Street Lagos. For his secondary education, he attended the Methodist Boys' High School in Lagos. he passed the Junior Cambridge Examination in 1932, after which he attended the Public Works Department technical school and obtained a diploma in Civil Engineering in 1938.

CAREER

Onafowokan Michael Olutusen started working after his training at the Public Works Department. below is a succinct trajectory of his career path.

Public Works Department

1937 - 1946
He also worked in different provinces in Nigeria and some parts of West Africa around this time. Drawing and Quantity Surveying Section - 1937 - 1939
Works and Building Section - 1939 - 1946`
Junior Technical Staff - 1937 - 1942

Higher Education

University Evening Classes in Lagos - 1942 - 1945
passed the University of London Matriculation Examination in 1946
Started at the Royal Technical College London 1946
Transferred to Glasgow Caledonian University in 1947
Bachelor of Science in Architecture - 1952
Post Graduate Diploma in Town Planning - 1953

He returned to Nigeria in 1953 and started working in the old Western region, by 1954 he was working with the Ministry of Lands and Housing in Ibadan and later in the Ministry of Transport. He retired on the 1st of December 1968 as the Chief Regional Architect. He later went into private practice in the name of Onafowokan Cityscape Group. The architecture firm still exists in the modern day as Onafowokan Cityscape Limited over 30 years after his death.

ARCHITECTURAL PHILOSOPHY AND STYLE

He worked on Projects and the very profound of his styles is the utilization of green spaces in his design and the complete integration of the building with environmental elements, his style of design was mostly asymmetric.
He championed the architectural philosophy of Tropical Modernism in Nigeria, ensuring that the users of buildings are not affected by the climate, the hospitals like the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, the Patriarch Bolaji Methodist Church which was designed in 1969 were great examples of tropical modernism architectural design philosophy at play in Nigeria

PROJECTS AND WORKS

Some projects done by Onafowakan Michael Olutusen include;

Cocoa House
Methodist Churches - Ita-Elewa, Aiyepe, Ogbomosho, Otapete, Agbeni.
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
Grace Nursery and Primary School Gbagada
Ikorodu Town Hall
Oriwu Citrus Club
Lagos Government College
Link road to Ikorodu
Methodist Boys High School
Federal Ministry of Education

AWARDS

Office of the Order of the Niger (OON)