Staff Profiles

Bachelor of Architecture

Masters of Arts in Conservation and Regeneration

PhD in Architecture

I am a qualified and registered architect with Architectural Registration Board in Botswana (ARC). I am also an accredited architectural historian and architectural heritage specialist. I hold a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Sheffield completed in 2018. I am a researcher, scholar, and lecturer, and I have also practiced architecture after my graduation. My research interest includes the relationship of architecture to the everyday spaces, heritage, identity, and colonial architecture. Prior to that, I obtained a Masters of Arts in Conservation and Regeneration in 2014. I also hold a degree in Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Botswana completed in 2009.

Architectural Design 

History and theory

Courses in Heritage 

1. Katlego Pleasure Mwale (2015) Rethinking Urban History and Architecture In A Postcolonial Context: a case of developing a new capital Gaborone in Botswana in 1960, 12th AHRA on Research Students  Symposium on Syncretic Architectures New Approaches Between Theory and Practice, Plymouth University, United Kingdom.

2. Katlego Pleasure Mwale (2019) The cultural legacy of designing a capital city -Gaborone in Botswana, FOLIO: Journal of  Contemporary African Architecture, FOLIO Vol 2: Noir Radica

3.1. Katlego Pleasure Mwale & Jo Lintonbon (2019) Heritage, identity and the politics of representation in tribal spaces: an examination of architectural approaches in Mochudi, Botswana and Moruleng, South Africa, International Journal of Heritage Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2019.1621923.