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THE DAIMLERCHRYSLER AWARD FOR SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE
26 JANUARY – 30 MARCH 2008
Room 10
The DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture, won by
Heinrich Wolff in 2007, is the seventh Arts Award bestowed by
DaimlerChrysler. The company has, since 2000, sponsored different art
disciplines and recognised artists within the fields of contemporary
art (Kay Hassan), jazz (Themba Mkhize), sculpture (Jane Alexander),
choreography (Sbo Ndaba), creative photography (Guy Tillim) and poetry
(Gabeba Baderoon). All the visual arts recipients’ work has been
showcased at Iziko SA National Gallery.
The exhibition, which was previously shown in Berlin, Johannesburg
and Durban, features the works of the young architects nominated for
the award.
Heinrich Wolff (37) became a partner in Noero Wolff architects in
1998. Over the past nine years he has been involved in teaching
design, construction and theory at various universities. He says: “I
grew up on the privileged side of an unfair society and I feel
compelled to contribute in effort and in ideas to the physical and
intellectual reconstruction of the country. For me this means
purposefully engaging in projects that go across boundaries of race,
income group, received or constructed culture or historical
categories. It would be unsatisfactory to think that great
architectural opportunity would lie only with wealthy clients or
international commissions where South African social-economic
realities do not exist.”
Enquiries: Marilyn Martin, Tel. 021 467 4660 or email
mmartin@iziko.org.za.
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