Dr Jaco Wasserfall is the founder and managing director of Wasserfall Munting Architects based in Windhoek, Namibia. He was born in Otjiwarongo and is a fifth generation Namibian of German and French descent.

After receiving his B.Arch from the University of Pretoria in 1982, he taught for a short period before obtaining a post-graduate scholarship to the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 1985. He married his wife Christel in King’s College Chapel early
the following year, and resided in Cambridge until his return to Namibia some four years later, upon choosing to engage in private practice while remaining active in academia.

Dr Wasserfall was a principal in the firm Architext until 2004, when he formed his own practice, Jaco Wasserfall Architects: the name of the practice was changed to Wasserfall Munting Architects in 2009 after he was joined by Paul Munting.