To initiate access to the recently donated archive, the latest iteration of the Out of the Box series is dedicated to AP218, the Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds at the CCA.
1 April 2027 to 1 March 2028
Out of the Box: Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin
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To initiate access to the recently donated archive, the latest iteration of the Out of the Box series is dedicated to AP218, the Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds at the CCA.
Rooted in acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings, the work of Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers resists erasure by honouring natural cycles and fostering continuity between past, present, and future.
13 November 2025, 6pm to 7:30pm
Placekeeping with Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers
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Rooted in acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings, the work of Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers resists erasure by honouring natural cycles and fostering continuity between past, present, and future.
articles
Placekeeping
sustainability, indigenous, colonialism, indigeneity, reindigenize, sisterhood, sorority, ecology, food, reciprocity, land-based practices
28 December 2025
Placekeeping
Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers reflect on acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings
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archives
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Fonds
AP218
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The Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds documents Hopwood and Godwin’s architectural projects from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, as well as their training to become architects, the administration of their architecture practice, and their career as architectural consultants, and their writing from the 1940s to 2023. The fonds mostly contains material related to their architectural projects, over 450 of them, mostly in Nigeria and some from their practice in the United Kingdom.
1940-2025
Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds
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AP218
Synopsis:
The Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds documents Hopwood and Godwin’s architectural projects from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, as well as their training to become architects, the administration of their architecture practice, and their career as architectural consultants, and their writing from the 1940s to 2023. The fonds mostly contains material related to their architectural projects, over 450 of them, mostly in Nigeria and some from their practice in the United Kingdom.
archives
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Fonds
1940-2025
ARCH288471
circa 1960-1980
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AP218.S0
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ARCH288464
circa 1950s
View of facade of Godwin and Hopwood offices, 27 Boyle Street, Lagos, Nigeria
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ARCH288464
Two architects at drafting tables in Godwin and Hopwood Architects offices at 27 Boyle Street
ARCH288470
circa 1960-1980
ARCH287290
March 1956
ARCH287296
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from donor inventory: Job 71 drawing number: 71 S6
26 August 1971
West elevations an typical sections for Guinness lager brewery, Ikeja, Nigeria
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ARCH287296
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from donor inventory: Job 71 drawing number: 71 S6