Founder & CEO
SheltaGroup Limited
Leadership across AEC delivery, institutional projects, strategic design direction and new project initiation.
Professional profile
Arc. Denis Uche Akabogu
Founder & CEO, SheltaGroup · Originator of Symbiature (HuGS) · Publisher, Green Thinking Review
FNIA Fellow, Nigerian Institute of ArchitectsFIMC Fellow, Institute of Management ConsultantsARCON Registered Architect, Architects Registration Council of NigeriaGBCN Green Building Council Nigeria
30+years of practice
Profile
Nigerian architect, practice leader, teacher and writer with more than three decades of experience connecting design quality, project delivery and the deeper human and ecological purposes of the built environment.
Current roles
Principal Architect
Spacetime Consultants
Architectural and multidisciplinary project delivery, design review, project clarity and delivery assurance.
Publisher
Green Thinking Review
Curating accessible conversations around sustainable building, African futures and ideas for flourishing.
Originator & Pioneer
Symbiature (HuGS)
Developing humane, green and wisdom-governed smart relationships across built, natural and know-how systems.
Adjunct Lecturer
Lagos Archdiocesan Catholic Charismatic Institute
Teaching Scripture, ecclesiology, authority and conflict management within faith formation.
Sector experience
Built across sectors. Grounded in purpose.
AviationBanking & insuranceEducationFaith-based developmentResidentialInstitutional projects
Education & formation
MSc Architecture
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
MSc Construction Management
University of Lagos
Theology
Faith, formation and service
Selected current work
Architecture for Humane, Green, and Smart Futures in Africa
A contracted Routledge manuscript grounded in African practice and the Symbiature (HuGS) framework.
HuGS Court
A purpose-built student accommodation project joining design, delivery and long-term development thinking.
Green Thinking Review
Publishing useful ideas for sustainable building and a flourishing African future.
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My interests page brings together the themes I am currently researching, writing about and trying to build.
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