Heinrich Wolff is an architect and project manager with over 28 years experience. His work has received many awards including the Daimler Chrysler Award for Architecture (2007), the Lubetkin Award (2005) and in 2011 he was elected as the Designer of the Future by the Wouter Mikmak Foundation. He has held several academic appointments; he has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2021 / 2022), University of Goa (2017), ETH in Zürich (2014-2015), IUAV in Venice(2013), Washington University in St. Louis (2015) and has been an adjunct associate professor at UCT, Cape Town.

Ilze Wolff is an architect and scholar with experience in design, teaching and heritage consulting. She received a Mphil in Heritage and Public Culture from the African Studies Unit at UCT. Ilze co-founded Open House Architecture in 2007, a transdisciplinary research practice which she continues to direct parallel to Wolff. She has led an Advanced Architectural Design Studio at Columbia University GSAPP (2023 )and is currently a Professor of Practice in Architecture at the School of Architecture at Liverpool University (2023).

Both principals have taught and lectured internationally including Switzerland, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada, Japan, and India and continue to do so. The work of the practice has also been included at various international exhibitions including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Architecture Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, and the South American Architecture Biennale. In 2023 the practice was awarded an honourable mention for their work ‘Tectonic Shifts’ at the 18th Venice Architectural Biennale