Papa Omotayo is a Lagos-based architect, designer, urbanist, researcher, filmmaker and cultural facilitator with a multi-faceted practice focused on collaboration, creativity, and material exploration as a pathway towards sustainable growth and social impact, especially on the African continent. His approach to architecture and design is holistic and community oriented, built on an in-depth and personal engagement with the people who occupy the spaces he builds to ensure that they are conceived with a psychology that is generative, ecologically-sensitive, and flexible.

Omotayo is a principal of both MOE+artArchitecture (MOE+AA), an architecture firm engaged in major projects across West Africa, and A Whitespace Creative Agency (AWCA), a design firm centered on creative production and programming, which often collaborate on projects to create a holistic program that not only builds spaces, but considers their use, development, and engagement into the future.
Omotayo is the designer of the internationally-renowned ART X Lagos art fair, responsible for the physical design of the fair as well as the interactive programmatic elements. Additionally, he is well known in Lagos for the public art intervention under the Falomo bridge that he designed in collaboration with the artist Polly Alakija, which created a cultural destination from a highly trafficked liminal space, and ongoing research projects such as mapping the ecosystem of trees through the city of Lagos and creating a local material lab, both of which are focused on building and advocating for more sustainable practices in urbanism and building with both the local government and design community.