Born in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Lanre Olusola founded Creation Consult in 1997 to deliver architecture and project management solutions to the growing built environment with Total Quality Management System as paradigm. Worked as Project Architect with Habitat Associates, consulting firm of Architects, from 1988 for upward of 14 years, executing various housing and Real Estate projects North of the Niger.
Traversed the length and breadth of Nigeria in major housing, institutional, hospitality, downstream products retail and real estate projects. Also worked as QC and Project Manager with Dynamic Corporation Llc (Hyattsville, MD) on the US Embassy NOX in Abuja, under the #OBO of US Department of State, with proven expertise in urban design, planning, implementation, project management and development.
A professional member of the Green Building Council Nigeria (GBCN) which is a member of the World Green Building Council (WGBC), contributes immensely to the growth and development of professional associations and administration through voluntary roles, by serving in various committees and responsibilities locally, nationally and internationally for upward of 15 years. I was elected NIA Council member in 2017 and chaired, NIA International Affairs 2019-23, representing the Institute in all international fora such as the #AUA, #CAA and #UIA.
Currently President of AIA Sub-Saharan Africa, a member of the AIA Global Practice Committee (2024-25), I served as Council & Board member of Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN) from 2016-2022 and was the Secretary General 2020-22; Appointed first Country Representative of AIA International in Nigeria in 2020; NCARB AXP Supervisor in 2020; also appointed as member of the UIA PPC and Architecture for All workgroup in 2021. First At-Large Director of AIA International and a Board member from Nigeria, with oversight of Africa and Indo-Asia 2022-24; elected as Treasurer (first from Nigeria) of the Africa Union of Architects (AUA), ratified at the 13th AUA Congress in Rabat, Morocco in 2022