Born in 1981. Bachelor in Architecture (B.Arch) from the University of Port Elizabeth. Professional Masters of Architecture (M.Arch. Prof) from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Practice Experience between 2006 and 2012 in various architecture firms in Cape Town, Berlin, and Windhoek. Private Architectural Practice in Windhoek since 2013. Lecturer in Construction Technology and Design at the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Windhoek since 2013. Substantial Member of the Heritage Council of Namibia 2016–2019. Since April 2020 Doctoral Candidate at the DFG Research Training Group at Brandenburg University of Technology. 

Research Focus: Namibian Architectural Heritage, History of construction Technology in Southern Africa, Colonial Architecture

Research Project:

Housing the Administration: The Residential Architecture of the Public Works Department in South-West Africa, 1945–55

Publications:

Adam, F.M., Kazakov, Y.M. & Wiedow, J. (2020) Building Reconstruction Technologies of architectural heritage.

Wiedow, J.  (2017) Notes on the revision of the Namibian Heritage Act, unpublished report for the National Heritage Council of Namibia

Wiedow, J. (2016) Heritage Impact Assessment of the Office of the Prime Minister, old Legislative Assembly Building in Windhoek Namibia, unpublished report for the Heritage Council of Namibia

Wiedow, J. (2017) Heritage Impact Assessment of the Hälbig House in Karibib Namibia, unpublished report for the Heritage Council of Namibia

Wiedow, J. (2018) Heritage Impact Assessment of the Schmerenbeck House in Swakopmund Namibia, unpublished report for the Heritage Council of Namibia

Public Lectures:

“Modernism in Namibia’s Spatial Production”. Panel discussion, Goethe Institute, Windhoek, 2020.

“Traditions in Namibian Architecture”. Technische Hochschule Rhein-Main, Wiesbaden, 2018.

“Modern Architecture in Namibia”. Colloquium at the DFG Research Training Group 1913, Cottbus, 24 October 2018.