LIVING IN ARCHITECTURE, the work of Jo Noero, 1984-2024

95pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Daedalus, Cape Town, (2024)

ISBN: 9780796159663

Companion to the exhibition, Cape Institute for Architecture, Cape Town, 2024. 

Joe Noero is the founder of Noero Architects, formed in Johannesburg in 1984. In 2000, the practice relocated to Cape Town, and now has offices in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Noero is also Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Cape Town.

The practice has received both local and international awards, including the Lubetkin Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2006, the Ralph Erskine Prize from the Nordic Association of Architects in 1993, and the Icon Award for Building of the Year from Icon Magazine in London in 2013.

The work of Noero Architects has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012, the Venice Biennale in 2008, 2010, and 2012, the Singapore Biennale in 2008, the Sao Paolo Biennale in 2009, the Chicago Architecture Biennale in 2015, the Museum of Architecture in Munich in 2014, and the National Gallery of Art in Cape Town in 2009.

Architect activist Iain Low is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Cape Town. With Ron Gross [Bezalel Academy] he is joint lead on the Ecologies of Settlement | Migration and the Right to the City project [Ethiopia], a research studio enquiry with EiABC.