Dissolving Acts: Ossian Fraser & the Critic, the Naturalist, the Architects, the Mountaineer (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783969121481)

Based in New Orleans, Louisiana, Andreas Merkl is a research fellow at Oxford University, working mostly on complex systems problems at the nexus of people and nature. Oceans, circular economy, food systems, and natural capital markets are areas of special interest. He holds a master's degree in Business and Administration from Harvard, a master's in Natural Resource Analysis and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree in Natural History and Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Heinrich and Ilze Wolff are architects working in Cape Town, South Africa. Wolff Architects is developing an architecture of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research, documentation, and art. Informed by the colonial history of their home in Cape Town, they established their architecture practice as a vehicle for addressing social inequities as well as the erasure of indigenous landscapes and narratives. Laura Helena Wurth is a writer and critic. She holds a bachelor's degree in Arts and Culture from Maastricht University, and a master's degree from Humboldt University Berlin. Wurth writes regularly about contemporary art and architecture for newspapers and magazines such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Sonntagszeitung, ZEIT ONLINE and KUNSTFORUM International. Heinrich and Ilze Wolff are architects working in Cape Town, South Africa. Wolff Architects is developing an architecture of consequence through the mediums of design, advocacy, research, documentation, and art. Informed by the colonial history of their home in Cape Town, they established their architecture practice as a vehicle for addressing social inequities as well as the erasure of indigenous landscapes and narratives.