Drawing Parallels: A Visual Essay
A personal walking tour through Kampala (with an interest in the National Theatre) drawing parallels to the group walking tour at Makerere University, with emphasis on the facades and murals. How do the mural techniques and façades at Makerere University connect to Kampala’s broader layered aesthetics, reflecting artistic inheritance and rupture? What visual parallels reveal continuity or disruption within the city’s artistic legacies?
By Leandra Graf
Leandra Graf
Leandra Graf is a Swiss artist and architect whose practice bridges fine art, architecture, and humanitarian research. Working primarily with photography, drawing, and material experimentation, her work explores notions of housing, belonging, and displacement.
She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), a BA in Architecture from ETH Zurich, and a Master’s in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona)—a unique MSc program that prepares architects to develop and rebuild communities affected by urbanisation, poverty, conflict, and disaster.
Although she considers Switzerland home, she leads a nomadic life, engaging with how artistic and architectural processes can shape connections between people, place, and culture.