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GUY TRANGOŠ 28 @meshworks.archi www.meshworks.archi Photography by Boitumelo Mazibuko
Acting Director, GSA and Co-founder, Meshworks Johannesburg As a practitioner, researcher, and educator, Guy is shaping the field and pedagogy of contemporary architecture and design. His commitment to both practice and scholarship has helped advance one of Africa’s only practicebased PhD programmes at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture, where he is currently the Acting Director. He holds a Doctor of Design degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and has published extensively. Through Meshworks, alongside co-founder Catherine de Souza, he creates context- responsive architecture and tests innovative material and formal strategies. A belief in architecture’s capacity to transform ingrained spatial legacies underpins his work.
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