About
34 Degrees Design is a place-based design practice led by Andres de Wet.
Andres de Wet is an American-born, South African urban designer, planner, spatial analyst and cartographer. His work brings together urban design, landscape thinking, spatial analysis and cartography to help people understand, shape and communicate the character of place.
Rooted in the Western Cape and shaped by international experience, Andres has worked across South Africa, the United States, Canada, Europe and Central America on urban revitalisation, precinct planning, public-realm strategy, academic urban design teaching, and large-scale spatial frameworks.
34 Degrees Design grew from a simple conviction: places deserve to be read carefully before they are changed, drawn or explained. Whether through a regional cartographic artwork, a public-realm strategy, a development framework or a design review, the practice begins with terrain, settlement, movement, ecology, memory and identity.
Andres holds a Master of Community Planning with a thesis in Urban Design from the University of Cincinnati, and a B.Sc. in Urban Studies from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. His professional pathway includes AICP certification in the United States, Associate Planner recognition through the Planning Institute of Australia, and a positive VETASSESS skills assessment as an Urban and Regional Planner.
Today, 34 Degrees Design works across cartographic artworks, urban design, planning, spatial analysis and place-based advisory, with a focus on work that is visually rigorous, contextually grounded and meaningful to the places it represents.