Althea Peacock is a professional architect, researcher, founding partner and co-director of LEMONpebble Architects and Urban Designers.

She is a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand and is a professional architect based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Her practice has executed work in both the public and private sectors with projects ranging from university and other education buildings, housing projects, corporate and public buildings, urban development frameworks and private homes at various scales and in multiple contexts

As a researcher, she is also immersed in thinking through being a black woman architect and its implications to discourses on identity, marginalized/erased histories and narrative, archival praxes, feminist practice and spatial politics. She is interested in how these manifest/are explored in the projects and other built infrastructures produced in her practice.

Althea is a JAE fellow, an invited juror for national architectural awards, and conference speaker. Her experience as a guest critic, at various universities for under- and post-grad for over a decade, feeds back into her practice, and writing, which promotes and is at the confluence of critical spatial thinking and spatial justice.