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Olumuyiwa, Oluwole (Olusegun)
(b Lagos, 31 May 1929). Nigerian architect. He studied architecture at the University of Manchester from 1949 to 1954, graduating with a First Class Diploma in Architecture and Certificate in Town Planning. He served a four-year apprenticeship in such leading offices in Europe as Architects Co-Partnership in London, the offices of Van den Broek and Bakema in Rotterdam, and in the new town developments in Emmen, Holland, and Stevenage, England. He also gained practical training in hospital planning in Zurich with the firm AKZ, under a Swiss government fellowship. On his return to Nigeria in 1958, he set up a practice: Oluwole Olumuyiwa & Associates. The formation of both the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) in 1958 and the consequent establishment of the Architects’ Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) by Federal Military Government Decree in 1969 were the result of his vision and commitment to the cause of architecture. He was the first Secretary of NIA (1958–66), then President (1970–72) and was also named a Fellow of the Institute in 1970.
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