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Ilze Wessels

Ilze Wessels

Johannesburg, ZA

 
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About 

Architectural Graduate from the University of Pretoria {South Africa} With Cumlaude. Work experience in Thailand, at ' thingmatter' architects and ScrapLAB Bangkok, 26'10 South Architects and LSP in Johannesburg. 

Now I run my own practice called 'Is Sound Architectures' focused on creating temporary architectures using sound and sound design principles and embedding them within sites and websites to engage with social and cultural issues through dialogue and art.

Passionate about travel, exploration, cities and the urban states. Photography and all kinds of media appeal to me, and I attempt to use them in new forms to try and document space, events and loci. I create digital art under the name ISSI_ISSA and fix my paintings and illustrations to the name FussMutt - whilst exploring creative entrepreneurship as a collaborative economist through a prototype service called OTYNET. 

Language and writing is a form of creativity which is most beautiful to me and from where I draw most of my inspiration, I believe that words interpreted visually by my imagination are the most exquisitely unique images I can obtain, much better than any visual stimulation is the stimulation of the imagination and thus have soft launched started my podcast radio called 'The Department for Urban Sanity' where I can merge all aspects of sounds into space.

 

Elsewhere:

Employment 

thingsmatter, Bangkok, TH, Architecture Assistant

Assist with design development, practical and structural design, CAD interpretation of ideas, presentations of work.

Sep 2011 - current
 

SCRAPLAB, Bangkok, ScrapScout

Assist with research and design and scrap material procurement and price negotiation.

Jan 2011 - Jul 2011
 

Education 

University of Pretoria, Pretoria, ZA, BArch, Architecture

RIBA accredited Architecture program.
Majors in Design and Construction, with other subjects including,
Structures, Architecture History, Theory of Architecture, Earth Sciences, Practice Management, Business Law.
Passed degree with Cumlaude.

Jan 2008 - Nov 2010
 

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