DIRECTOR

Francois heads up the Urban and Architectural Design expertise in the TJA Pretoria Office. He has worked on diverse architectural and urban projects locally and into Africa including Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, , Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Francois’s expertise and skills covers a range of project typologies ranging from small scale architectural interventions to large scale urban precincts. As a design professional, he has envisioned offices, hotels, residential, industrial, retail and institutional projects that enable his intricate understanding of how dense mixed use urban development’s function and integrate into mixed use opportunities.

Francois completed his Master’s degree in Urban Design and previous to that his Professional Degree in Architecture. He is a registered architect at the South African Council for the Architectural Profession, Pretoria Institute for Architecture, Shopping Centre Council and the urban Design Institute of South Africa.

Francois has attended various local and international seminars and congresses with a focus on design in the professional practise. He was a panellist at the 2021 SA Shopping Centre Congress, The West Africa Property Summit and PIA talks. In 2012 and 2014 he was shortlisted for a future project category at the World Architectural Festival in Singapore. He was also invited to attend the Glen Murcutt Master Class in Australia to represent South Africa in 2009.
Francois currently spends his time traveling up into Africa working on various new projects and designing new urban environments in various cities.