African/modernism: Meanings of modernism in South Africa

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[A lecture delivered at the University of Johannesburg, 18 May 2022] The story of architectural modernism has been conventionally told through a particular range of  narratives...

CONFERENCE | Making human settlements and public spaces in contexts of migrancy and xenophobia

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[A panel discussion at the conference "RISE AFRICA 2022: Human Rights in the context of African Cities", 23-25 May 2022] Excerpt: "Housing shortage is a key...

CONFERENCE | Imagining South African landscape: Three centuries of landscape and society in Cape Town

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The presentation is an inter-disciplinary study of the making of race, landscape and the South African city.  Spanning three centuries, it reveals key historical moments where...

CRITICAL TOOLS (PART 4): Authorship in architecture

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This is the fourth in a series on ‘critical tools’, that helps to enable critical readings of contemporary architecture in South Africa. In this lecture I...

CRITICAL TOOLS (PART 3): Is transformation moving at a 'slow rate'?

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This is the third in a series on ‘critical tools’, that helps to enable critical readings of contemporary architecture in South Africa. In this lecture I...