Jo Noero

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SACAP, SAIA, CIFA

Principal, Noero Architects

Practice established in Johannesburg 1984. During that period Noero has designed and built more than 200 buildings which range in both size and complexity.

Awards include Lubetkin Prize from RIBA 2007, Erskine Prize Sweden 1993, Icon Award (UK) for Building of the year 2014, Archmarathon Award Milan 2018. Work exhibited at Venice Biennale 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2016, Chicago Architecture Biennale 2017, Maxxi Museum in Rome 2015 and 2019, Museum of Modern Art in New York 2010, Museum of Architecture in Munich. Drawings and Models in the permanent Collection of the Chicago Art institute and the Maxxi National Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture in Rome. Noero`s work has been published in a number of books and was selected for the Phaidon History of 20th century Architecture.

Elected as an Honorary Fellow of AIA 2015, International Fellow of RIBA 2010, Fellow of the Academy of Science 2002, awarded Gold Medal for Architecture from South African Institute of Architects 2010.

Emeritus Professor of Architecture from 2015. Director of School of Architecture and Planning at UCT from 2000 – 2005. Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Director of Graduate Studies at Washington University in St Louis from 1995 – 2000. B.Arch. – University of Natal 1978, M.Phil. Arch. – University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1980, Honorary Doctor of Science – University of Brighton 1995

Honorary Fellows Keynote Lecture: Remaking the South African City