Vedhant Maharaj-Architect

Vedhant Maharaj is an architect and head of the Rebel Base Collective architecture and design studio.

I recorded this interview a few weeks back and it then got put on the back-burner as I wanted to have some guests on to look at the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on South Africa. Please listen to the recent episodes with Michael Sachs and Prof Shabir Mahdi.

Vedhant and I chatted about a number of things including how he became an architect, the state of South African architecture, the difficulty and challenges of changing the legacy of spatial apartheid and the policy landscape of that debate.

We also spoke about the evolving technology of sustainable materials and design, and touched on his masters thesis design project that confronted the challenge of infrastructural and ecological design in the political and religious context of modern India.