Jeanne Autran-Edorh is a French-Togolese architect and co-founder of Studio NEiDA, an interdisciplinary architecture, design, curatorial and research practice based in Lomé, Berlin and Brussels, established in 2023. She previously worked with several Pritzker Prize-winning architecture studios, including Herzog & de Meuron, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, and Studio Francis Kéré, where she led major civic projects such as the Benin National Assembly and the Thomas Sankara Memorial. Her architectural practice, research and teaching focus on decolonial approaches, contextual and regenerative design, circularity, material innovation, and transdisciplinary methodologies.
In 2025 she was named among the 50 Most Influential African Women in Architecture (2025 Edition) for her visionary work at the intersection of architecture, culture and social justice.
With Studio NEiDA she was commissioned to be the curator of Togo’s first national pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale with the exhibition Considering Togo’s Architectural Heritage, which opened in May 2025. The same year, Studio NEiDA curated Out of Fashion, Togo’s debut contribution to the 24th Milan Triennale international exhibition, featuring a research installation exploring textile waste and spatial informality.
Jeanne currently teaches at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, where she leads the Master studios Geopolitics of Waste and There Is Not One Architecture, exploring material ecologies, circular economies, and postcolonial urbanism through research-based design.
About Studio NEiDA
Studio NEiDA was the winner of the GAIIA 2024 Design Competition, awarded by the German-African Innovation Incentive Award. In 2025, the studio received the BUILD Excellence Award for Exhibition Curation and was named Best Emerging Architecture &Design Duo – EMEA at the BUILD Awards. Studio NEiDA has been recognized among the 20 Practices Shaping the Future of Architecture as part of the winners of the ArchDaily2025 Next Practices Awards.
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