JAIYEOBA Babatunde Emmanuel

Prof. E. Babatunde JAIYEOBA is versatile multidisciplinary researcher at the intersection of Architecture,

Humanities and /or Health; his PhD research explored how the low income negotiate housing in the

social context by deploying Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space. He was head of department between 2014

and 2016 and 2019 and 2021. A practicing architect trained by Getty in Conservation of Modern

Architecture, he is the project supervisor of the Getty Keep-It-Modern 2020 Conservation Management

Plan Project of Arieh Sharon’s Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (1962–1976) with complementary

measures supported by Gerda Henkel Stiftung of Germany.

Professor Jaiyeoba is an international scholar that has published on Cultural issues and African identity

in Architecture, Conservation Management, Housing, Architectural Technology, Management, and

Production sometimes with colleagues and students across the Globe. He collaborated with other

researchers from Departments of Architecture around Nigeria in contributing to the National

Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) books

towards the establishment of Faculties of Architecture in the country. He is also an expert member of

ICOMOS International Committee on Education and Training (ICOMOS-CIF), a Fellow of the Nigeria

Institute of Architects and a Council Member of the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON).