A young candidate architectural designer with a strong academic background and diverse professional experience, Bongi Sithole holds a Master of Architecture (Professional) degree from the University of Cape Town, where she was awarded the prestigious UCT Vice-Chancellor Scholarship Prize in 2021. Following the completion of her master's degree, she decided to pursue interests in fields outside of the built environment. This includes working within the art industry and currently in museum exhibition design, where she continues to hone her skills and explore her passion in working in service to creating immersive and impactful spaces and narratives – for both the individual and collective.
Tyra Leigh Redman is a Candidate Architect known for her drive to learn and adapt, and her ability to be flexible in multiple disciplines including art and photography. She has completed her MArch Degree at Oxford Brookes University in 2020, where she got the taste for travel and international collaborative design. Tyra is currently in the process of attaining her licence as a professional architect and is working towards amplifying her knowledge and experience to become a reputable international architect/designer.
Having come from different backgrounds in South Africa, Bongi and Tyra share a dynamic and evolving partnership both on and off the field. They were brought together through their undergraduate studies at the University of Witwatersrand where their relationship was forged by their desire to create. They have successfully worked together in collaborative group projects and have since grown a passion for competitions that challenge their respective skills and push them outside of their relative scopes of work.