KZN JOURNAL SPONSORED BY:
Architect(s): Prof Walter Peters, Kevin Bingham, Ruben Reddy, Nina Saunders, Trish Emmett, Ivor Daniel, Prof Rodney Harber
Keywords: News, Dirk Meyer, Peter du Trevou, four decades, sponsorship, 40th anniversary, Sustainability, bricks, Mies van der Rohe, put two bricks together, structural stability, flexibility, thermal mass, durability, public understanding of the built environment
Keywords: We Design conference, low economic growth, increasing unemployment, deepening poverty, widening inequality, Durban City Hall, ‘urban-minded’ speakers, Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, Felipe Leal, head of Mexico City’s department of urban design and housing, Kelvin Campbell, chair of Smart Urbanism, London, SAIA president, Afrisam-SAIA Award for minimising the environmental impact of buildings
Architect(s): Al Stratford
Keywords: News, South African Institute of Architects, KwaZulu-Natal Institute of Architects, ‘Strat-Plan’, regional institutes, SAIA Constitutional Committee, Journal of the KwaZulu-Natal region of the South African Institute of Architects
Architect(s): FGG Architects Inc., Kevin Bingham, Trish Emmett, Brian Johnson, Gordon Small, Hans Hallen, Keith Gow, Ernest Hudson-Bennet, Jack Simpson, Sonny Tomkin, Ron Bartholemew, Ernest Powers, Wilfred Payne, Sindile Ngonyama, Jan Ras, Lauren Haiden, Maryke Cronje, Joan Seirlis
Location(s) Durban’s Hilton Hotel
Keywords: News, President of the South African Institute of Architects, Technikon Natal, DUT, University of Natal, UKZN, ‘Impact of AIDS on building types in KZN’, Comrades Marathons, yachtsman, Point Yacht Club, SAIA Honorary Life Membership, Union of International Architects
Architect(s): Angela Baker, Jodi Davids-Harber, Christina Giampietri, Mandisa Daki, Nomagugu Manci, Janina Masojada
Keywords: Dirk Meyer, Corobrik MD, Prof Debbie Whelan, Corobrik, SAIA, ArchiCAD, Prof. Rozena Maart, ‘Race, space and the city’, Nolita Mtati, Durban Chamber of Commerce, Dumile Cele, race and gender challenges, ‘Neutralising Spaces’ student competition, Treven Moodley, Lesego Tsatsimpe, Dashnee Chetty, Adheema Davis, transformation
Location(s) uMgeni River, Warwick Triangle, Inanda Dam in Molweni
Keywords: Jean-Pierre de Marigny, Design for (bio-) diversity, water research facility, Springfield Industrial Park, Frans Marx, Jean-Paul D’Ahl, Michel Blumrick, clay brick
Architect(s): Robert JW Brusse, Walter Beall, AE Dainton, Moffat & Hirst, Albert Halder, ICA Architects
Location(s) Langalibalele Street, Havelock Road, College Rd, cnr Chief Albert Luthuli and Pietermaritz Streets, Burger Street
Keywords: The Witness, Heritage Awards, Government House, UNISA campus, Old Boys’ Model School, Peter Paterson, Harvard school, Edendale Nursing College, Supreme Court, Regional Commissioners of the Dept of Correctional Services, Government Offices and Magistrate’s Court, Family Court, Villa Sans Souci, Ingonyama Trust, Provincial offices of the Dept of Transport
Architect(s): Al Stratford, Urban Foundation, ZAI, George Elphick, Nick Proome
Location(s) Bloemfontein
Keywords: ‘Reductive Innovation in Architecture’
Architect(s): designworkshop: sa, Kevin Bingham, Mokena Makeka, Makeka Design Lab, Prof Paul Kotze, Ms Sumien Brink, Musa Shangase
Location(s) Verulam, 8 Humewood Drive, La Lucia
Keywords: LIV Village, national record
Architect(s): Alejandro Aravena, designworkshop: sa, Joan Clos, Paola Baratta, Norman Foster, Andrew Makin, Rem Koolhaas, Foster + Partners
Keywords: Infrastructure discussants, Durban’s Warwick Triangle urban renewal project, ‘Meetings on Architecture’
Architect(s): Len Chiazzari, Patrick Holdcroft, Anton Aiello
Location(s) Richmond
Architect(s): Michele Jacobs, Brian Kearney, Paton Taylor Architects Inc, William Street Wilson, Ludwig Mies, Philip Dudgeon
Location(s) England, Bedford Park
Keywords: New Publications, Durban Heritage Trust, Barrie Biermann Architecture, Michele Jacobs, social, technological, environmental conditions
Architect(s): Ian Bell, Lauren Haiden, Dennis-lee Stols
Location(s) Pietermaritzburg City Hall, Durban train station, Emmanuel cathedral
Keywords: New Publications, competitions, Robertson’s building, Alexander Forbes, rejuvenation
Architect(s): Franco Frescura , Joyce Myeza, Dennis Claude
Keywords: New Publications, indigenous architecture, Rural shelter in southern Africa, policy of equitable use of English and isiZulu, line drawings, ‘Zulu weapons’ store, indlu, Zulu nomenclature, wicker door, leg-of-mutton gable, “Boer-style thatching”, “smooth-style thatching”, stepped, ‘queen closer’, ‘sinkless’, Dr Samuel Johnson, ‘hidden’ architecture
Architect(s): Suren Indhul, Des Watkins, Ruben Reddy, Janina Masojada
Location(s) Umhlanga New Town
Keywords: New Publications, self-taught practitioner, Professional Architectural Technologist, Pan-African parliament, Simbithi Eco Estate, ‘life lessons’, politics, contractual minefields, aspirant and experienced architects
Architect(s): Chen Sagnelli Associate Architects
Location(s) Durban North
Keywords: Gorgeous Green House in Durban North, Afrisam-SAIA category A award winners, vegetation, indigenous, Pavilion, habitable, social, roof gardens, ‘sexy’, ‘whirly bird’, heat intake, cross ventilation, air conditioning, mid humid summer, off the grid, municipal supplies, sub-tropical climate, Engineers: Becker Consulting, Quantity Surveyor: Peter Howse, Contractor: Bancamp, Photographer: Grant Pitcher
Architect(s): Felipe Leal, Kelvin Campbell, Ruben Reddy
Location(s) Durban City Hall
Keywords: South African Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, economy, Universidad Nacional Autónom de Mexico, Minister of Urbanism for Mexico City, Smart Urbanism, social innovation, sustainable urban design, ‘organised complexity’, ‘command and control’, C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last, transition, regional institute, New Paradigms conference, growing joblessness, increasing poverty, widening wealth disparity, low density, functionally zoned, logistics-reliant corporate economy, food sector, mixed land uses, broad-based access, pedestrian-dominated city street movement, entrepreneurial incubator, Social cohesion, Air bnb, Uber, fractured, purpose, colonial, settlement patterns, Youtube
Location(s) Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Bay, eThekwini, Umgeni River
Keywords: Change, only constant, Heraclitus, rapid urbanisation, ‘designed out’, mobility, ‘city making’, Local Area Plan (LAP), population, State of South African Cities Report, single bus route, radical, National Development Plan, anti-urban, gated, Integrated Development Plan, metro, Africa’s Caring and Liveable City, Spatial justice, Sustainability, resilience, quality, efficiency, Learning from the past, history, Economic drivers of regeneration, apartheid, transport, walkable city, promenade, five-minute walk, land use intensities, network, potential, regeneration, expansion
Keywords: good urbanism, spatial design, Poverty, unemployment, inequality, revolution, ‘action research project’, interventions, listening skills, digital age, transformative, youth, small towns, movie-making, Bologna Regulation, UCT African Climate and Development Initiative, collaborative social ecosystem, health, local exchange, making, food, water, energy, shelter, waste
Page 15
Keywords: Hon Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, inhibitors in advancing, Twitter, Facebook, e-Mail, national vision, public sector energy, inner city cores, collective, small ideas and actions, Neighbourhood Enabling Agency, Target funding, Prepare, parcel and release land, incentivised, revenue models, maximum investment, innovation, catalysts, Don’t try to command and control, reductionist practices, exclusiveness, housing as an entitlement, numbers, new towns, risk, ‘bigness’
Page 16
Keywords: dramatic and wide ranging change, revolvere, objectives, spatial environment, disabling, economy, freedom, equality, dignity, UKZN, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Meso-American, Oriental, civil, enemies, obstacles, ‘consciousness era’, Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, macro-policies, trigger, South African city making, inner city core, urban, social structure, Durban beachfront, Leadership, Nelson Mandela, Nation Building, evaluation, poor performance of our economy, dream, High residential populations, active populated streets, squares and parks, tribe
160 Bulwer Road
Glenwood
Durban
South Africa
4001
Email: admin@saiakzn.org.za
Phone: 031 201 7590
© SAIA KZN 2024