About
Prof Ilze Wolff is Chair in Architectural Practice at Liverpool School of Architecture. She co-directs Wolff Architects in Cape Town, South Africa; a practice concerned with an architecture of ethical consequence. Her built work includes public infrastructure projects, cultural educational buildings, exhibition architecture and urban interventions of repair and restoration. For her architecture projects, she and her practice have been awarded numerous SA Institute for Architecture awards as well as the Sophia Gray Award for Excellence in Practice in 2025. Coupled with this, Wolff has developed an enduring yet critical public culture and creative research practice through initiating exhibitions, film projects, public interventions and publications. She was the Dean's visiting assistant professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 2023 – 2024 and a visiting professor at Harvard School of Urban Design, 2022. Her work has been exhibited at various prestigious Biennales, including the Venice Architectural Biennale 2023, Bienal de São Paulo 2023, the Dakar Biennale, 2024 and the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026. Her creative research concerns are centred around gardens as sites of liberation, Spatial Justice, Ecological Justice, Emancipatory Spatial Practice and sound as pedagogy.