Henri Comrie is a Cape Town based architect and urban designer. He is associate professor and chair of the Master of City Planning and Urban Design Programme at the University of Cape Town and practices as COMRIE + WILKINSON ARCHITECTS AND URBAN DESIGNERS (Cape).

Kunlé Adeyemi is an architect, designer and urbanist. He is the founder and principal of NLÉ, an architecture, design, and urbanism practice focused on city development research and strategy advisory service, conceptualization and creative structuring, architecture and product design, infrastructure design, arts and cultural urban interventions. Website

Erky Wood is a founding member of GAPP and is a specialist in urban development processes, in the identification of strategic objectives, parametric urban cost modelling and local authority issues and their effect on the urban design process. Website: gapp.net

Heinrich Wolff heads Wolff, a design studio concerned with developing an architectural practice of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research and documentation. The Wolff team, made up of a group of highly skilled, committed and engaged individuals, is led by husband and wife couple Ilze & Heinrich Wolff. Website: wolffarchitects.com

Y Tsai established TSAI Design Studio in 2005. It is a young and dynamic creative design studio / architectural practice based in Cape Town. The studio uses multidisciplinary apploaches to generate creative solutions in the field of graphic, furniture, interior design and architecture. The studio has won various awards including the acclaimed Red Dot Award […]

Alayne Reesberg is the newly appointed CEO of Cape Town Design – the company established to deliver on Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 commitments. Website

Mick Pearce designs low maintenance buildings with low capital and running costs, using renewable energy systems of environmental control. He is constantly developingand refining ways of making buildings that are suited to their natural environment and the people who use them. Architectural expression must construct a balance between the natural, social and economic environments in […]

Nina Maritz is the founder of Nina Maritz Architect, a practice that incorporates a full spectrum of private, government, and corporate work with a strong focus on environmental sustainability and community projects.

Alberto Kalach was born in Mexico City, studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and completed graduate studies later at Cornell University in Ithaca. In 1981 he founded the firm “Taller de Arquitectura X” with Daniel Álvarez, with whom he worked until 2002, when Álvarez left the firm. While he continues to direct TAX, […]