Huda Tayob is a South African architect, architectural historian and theorist. Her research focuses on minor, migrant and subaltern architectures, architectural ghost stories and working with archival silences in the built environment more generally. Her research focuses on the African continent and south-south connections, as sites from where we might rethink architectural cultures. She has been a Mellon Fellow on the Canadian Centre for Architecture project, CentringAfrica (2020 – 2022), a Graham Foundation Grantee (2023; 2022) holder and received the Scott Opler Award for Emerging Scholars (2019). She is co-curator of the open access curriculum Racespacearchitecture.org, and the lead curator of the digital exhibition, Archive of Forgetfulness.

She is a senior research tutor and part of the MA Architecture academic team. She has previously taught at the University of Manchester, The University of CapeTown, The University of Johannesburg and the Bartlett School of Architecture.