Lecture Series: Ilze and Heinrich Wolff

A man and a woman standing and looking at building models, behind them is a relief model of a site plan.

Tectonic Shifts - reflections of recent work

Wednesday 13th December 2023 1pm, Reilly Room

The lecture will be delivered in person at LSA but will be hybrid, click here to register

Synopsis

Our lecture will centre around our contribution at the Venice Architecture Bienale 2023, curated by Lesley Lokko, where we will speak about new aesthetics practices in representation, our continued concerns about spatial justice and our experiments with light. 

Cross section of a modern building.

 

Baháʼí House of Worship, Kinshasha
Credits: Drawing by Wolff Architects.

Biography

Founded by Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff in 2012, Wolff Architects has aimed to cultivate, in its own words, "an enduring public culture around the city, space, and personhood." Informed by the colonial history of its surroundings, the Cape Town-based firm excavates sites of historic inequity and erasure, using design, research, and advocacy tools to construct what it calls an "architecture of consequence.” From urban-scale infrastructure to handmade zines, its work embraces "a multiplicity of means of representation and expression, rather than accepting the constraint of speaking through buildings," as described by The Architectural Review. 

For more information about Ilze and Heinrich Wolff, click here.