Dwight Carey is a PhD student in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Los Angeles, California (UCLA). He is in residence in Senegal in order to complete his research on the role of memory of trade in the global development of Creole architecture. This project examines the style of internationally uniform and hybrid architecture that characterized the houses of commerce in the most active of the French empire of the 10th and 18th century ports: New Orleans, Louisiana, Saint-Louis in Senegal, and Port Louis in Mauritius. His research examines the process by which economies of exchange provoked a mixture of several traditions of construction and the formation of a hybrid architecture of world trade. So this project is the first study of colonial economies that led the international development of a commercial form of Creole architecture.