UJ Honours Bursary Opportunity
Opportunity to apply for the UJ Honours Bursary now available to applicant students to the Graduate School of Architecture M1 Programme. Click on this post for more details!
UrbanWorks shortlisted entrant for the World Architecture Festival 2018
Savage and Dodd, together with UrbanWorks (office of GSA Unit 14 leader, Thiresh Govender) have been shorlisted for the 2018 World Architecture Festival, for a re-imagined, mixed-use scheme for an existing inner-city office tower. Congratulations!
GSA HTD Mini-Colloquium 2018
Students from each of the History-Theory Elective Modules at the Graduate School of Architecture present their research undertaken in the M1 year, at this year's HTD Mini-Colloquium!
Unit 15(X) Student Dickson Adu-Agyei to fly to South Korea!
Dickson Adu-Agyei, an M2 student in Unit 15(X) has been selected to participate as a mentee in a workshop organised by the Global Youth Culture Forum in the city of Jéju, South Korea, from 29 October to 4 November 2018. During his time in Jéju, Dickson will work with a team composed of 19 practitioners from all over the world. The forum will look at the cultural and social issues involved in contemporary urban transformations that are a consequence of economic and political processes. The workshop aims to analyse in situ contexts where architecture, art and culture are fields of reflection and action. Terrific job, Dickson!
Sir David Adjaye and Prof Lesley Lokko in Conversation
Watch the full video of the hour-long conversation between Sir David Adjaye and Prof Lesley Lokko held at the RIBA in London last week. Sir David discusses his exceptional career and rise to become one of Time Magazine's '100 most influential people' in the world. In a wide-ranging interview that covers both professional and personal challenges, Sir David explores his design philosophy, the structure and set-up of his practice, his aspirations for architecture to 'do better, be better' and his profound and moving explanation of what it's like to be famous: 'it set me free to be me.' A fascinating insight into a truly outstanding and important talent.
GSA-Boogertman+Partners # 12 - Thiresh Govender
Thiresh Govender is an architect and urban designer practicing in Johannesburg. Having worked in the studios of Noero Wolff and Paragon Architects, he was driven to understand the larger forces shaping architecture and cities in our new democracy. He was awarded the Chevening Scholarship to complete his Master’s in Urban Design at the Bartlett in 2006. Following his intrepid travels to far-away places, he set up UrbanWorks in Johannesburg as a means of exploring the possibilities of practice in an attempt to understand this unwieldy metropolis in terms of its design. He is deeply obsessed with the emergent spatial patterns of the city, specifically its capacity to foster radical new possibilities. He leads Unit 14 at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture, which investigates the Rogue Economies shaping Johannesburg.
