The Department of Architecture, UFS, is pleased to announce that the 36th Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture and Exhibition will be presented this year by Wolff Architects. Wolff Architects is a design studio concerned with developing an architectural practice of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research and documentation. The Wolff team is led by Ilze & Heinrich Wolff who work collaboratively with a group of highly skilled, committed and engaged architects, creative practitioners and administrators.

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PREVIOUS LAUREATES

• 2025 - Heinrich and Ilze Wolff: SEEKING SUNSHINE
• 2024 - Andre Eksteen & Braam de Villiers: IN THE MAKING OF MEANINGFUL THINGS
•  2023 - Nadia Tromp: SHIFTING PERCEPTION: DESIGNING DIGNITY
• 2022 - Mphethi Morojele: CHANGING LANDSCAPES PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY
• 2021 - Lucien Le Grange: ARCHITECTS AND URBAN PLANNERS
• 2019 - Jon Jacobson: IN[DE]FINITE
• 2018 - 'Ora Joubert: LA PROMENADE ARCHITECTURALE
  
• 2017 - Elphick Proome Architects: EVOLUTION
• 2016 - Al Stratford: REDUCTIVE INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE
• 2015 - Anton Roodt: BIG DREAMS IN A SMALL CITY: PLACES OF MEMORY, SPACES OF IMAGINATION
• 2014 - Mashabane Rose Architects: LANDSCAPE, HISTORY AND CONTEXT
• 2013 - Kate Otten: ARCHITECTURE FOR EVERY DAY
• 2012 - Stan Field: FOR THE LOVE OF ARCHITECTURE
• 2011 - Peter Rich: LEARNT IN TRANSLATION
• 2010 - Jaco Wasserfall: NO GRAFFITI, PLEASE! STULTORUM CALAMI CARBONES MOENIA CHARAE
• 2009 - Walter Peters: MORE WAYS OF BEING AN ARCHITECT
• 2008 - Practice Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects (VDMMA): VAN DER MERWE MISZEWSKI PROJECTS
• 2007 - Jo Noero: THE EXPEDIENT AND THE ETHICAL, THE EVERYDAY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY
• 2006 - Designworkshop:SA: BORROWING SPACE AND TIME
• 2005 - Bannie Britz: STORIES...ARCHITECTURE...LIFE
• 2004 - Paul Mikula: A GREAT BIG BOX CALLED ARCHITECTURE
• 2003 - Peter Buchanan: ARCHITECTURE OF THE EMERGENT EPOCH
• 2002 - Louis Karol: 50 YEARS IN THE CITY
• 2001 - Hentie Louw: ARCHITECTURE AND CRAFT: A WORKING RELATIONSHIP?
• 2000 - Stanley Saitowitz: EXPANDED ARCHITECTURE
• 1999 - Jack Diamond: PRACTICING SCALES
• 1998 - Adele Naude Santos: "NARRATIVE MAPS" : CONCEPTS AND CREATIONS
• 1997 - Revel Fox: REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF SPACE
• 1996 - Pancho Guedes: SEVEN MANIFESTOES
• 1995 - Hannes Meiring: ARCHITECTURE - THE GREAT ADVENTURE
• 1994 - Jack Barnett: BUILDING THE BEST - THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA'S ESSENTIAL MISSION
• 1993 - Glen Gallagher: THE EXCLUSION OF CONCLUSION IN ARCHITECTURE
• 1992 - Willie Meyer: THE THREE PASTS TO OUR PRESENT
• 1991 - Gawie Fagan: ARCHITECT AND COMMUNITY
• 1990 - Roelof Uytenboogaardt: TIMELESS IN ARCHITECTURE
• 1989 - Mira Fassler-Kamstra: MIMICRY AND CAMOUFLAGE (INSPIRATION AND INTERPRETATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE)