Alumni

At the GSA, we keep in regular contact with all our graduating students. Some come back to teach; others to review or crit projects; others to hold exhibitions. We aim to grow a ‘family’ of GSA staff and students whose influence can be felt beyond the school’s walls and in the wider profession.

In 2020, the GSA celebrated 5 years of the schools inception. We hosted an exhibition entitled 20/20 Visions: 5 Year Retrospective of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.

In this exhibition, we reflected on the visionaries that have crafted the flagship Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg; including its staff, its supporters, but most importantly, its student visionaries. We celebrated the stellar work that has grown, emerged and extrapolated deeply complex, trans-continental issues in spatial practice; and use it as a gaze toward a continued, and ever-expanding horizon that strives for excellence, imagination and criticality. Hindsight may certainly be 20/20, but from here we look forward into a newly created courageous space of architectural pedagogical pursuit, ever further to be imagined and fought for, ever more deeply.