Rice Architecture: Ilze Wolff & Heinrich Wolff – Part II - Virtual Event

Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff, principals Wolff Architects, South Africa, present Part II of the lecture "About Paying Attention" at 12 p.m. via Zoom as part of the Rice Architecture Fall 2020 Lecture Series. IIze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff will discuss how their projects emerge out of a careful attention to the details of its conditions, as opposed to the obvious and often unquestioned constructed narratives of place and space. This is their frame for discussing research projects as well as spatial interventions through architectural form. Their attention to the oblique allows for the work to move towards uncomfortable questions around race, coloniality, and gender. They offer a conversation around architectural practice situated within the black studies and their readings of Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, Sol Plaatje, Chimurenga, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, Kader Attia, Miriam Makeba, Aretha Franklin, and Charles Mingus, to name a few. [Organizer's description]