The fifth session of LOUDREADERS welcomes Ilze Wolff presenting the Loudreading of ‘Aesthetics of Superfluity’ by Achille Mbembe, and Yakhal' Inkomo by Capetonian Jazz Legend Winston “Mankunku” Ngozi.
Ilze Wolff is an architect working in Cape Town. She co-directs Wolff Architects with Heinrich Wolff, a practice that is concerned with developing an architecture of consequence. In 2007 she co-founded Open House Architecture a research practice concerned with documenting architecture of Southern Africa. In 2013 she completed a Masters in Heritage and Public Culture at UCT with the thesis dissertation titled Unstitching Rex Trueform, an interdisciplinary study of the Rex Trueform garment manufacturing factory in Salt River, Cape Town. In 2016 the manuscript won the first edition of the International L’erma C prize, Rome and she is now working on preparing the manuscript for publication. Ilze has lectured and taught widely including at IUAV, Venice, Goa, India, Lisbon, Portugal. The work of the practice, has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, and the Chicago Architecture Biennale.
Sat 02 May | 3:00pm EST | online
wolffarchitects.co.za
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The discussion takes place via zoom meeting and will be livestreamed on Facebook live.
View the full LOUDREADERS schedule on the WAI website.
About the LOUDREADERS Conversation Series
Making the most out of staying safe at home during quarantine, Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz García of WAI Architecture Think Tank created a series of weekly online sessions that each feature a different LOUDREADER. Each LOUDREADER will select a book or a series of books as background to discuss urgent positions on the state of architecture, urbanism, art, and culture with a live-audience through a Zoom-meeting format. Produced in collaboration with inter·punct, these events will be a great opportunity for students and faculty to interact with practitioners, architects, designers, thinkers, authors, and artists from around the globe.