Heinrich Wolff

Heinrich Wolff is an architect and is in practice with Ilze Wolff, in Cape Town, South Africa. Their practice is developing an architecture of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research, documentation and art. Informed by the colonial history of their home in Cape Town, they established their architecture practice as a vehicle for addressing social inequities as well as the erasure of indigenous landscapes and narratives. Heinrich's work has been exhibited internationally, the most significant exhibitions being the Museum of Modern Art (2010), the Venice Biennale (2006 & 2010), the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale (2005, 2007 & 2019), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015 & 2019) and the South American Architecture Biennale – Ecuador (2008). In 2011 Heinrich was selected as the Designer of the Future by the Wouter Mikmak Foundation (Netherlands). In 2007, he won the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture. With his practice Heinrich received the Lubetkin Award in 2006 from the RIBA. He has won several other international and South African awards for excellence in design, most notably for public buildings such as schools and hospitals. Heinrich has been guest professor at various institutions; IUAVenice (2013), ETH Zürich (2014-15), Washington University, St. Louis (2016) and taught at the Goa College of Architecture (2017 as the foreign visiting Charles Correa Chair) and at the Harvard GSD (2021) where he pioneered an urban design course in collaborative VR. He was also an associate adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town and an honorary research fellow at the same institution.