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SAIA-KZN and SAIA-KZN Journal

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

40 Years SAIA-KZN Journal

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

SAIA President 2017: Kevin Bingham

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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

Launch of Women in Architecture, Issue 2/2016

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Architect(s): Angela Baker, Jodi Davids-Harber, Christina Giampietri, Mandisa Daki, Nomagugu Manci, Janina Masojada

Author(s) Karuni Naidoo

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

SAIA-KZN President, Regional Committee & Task Teams, 2017-18

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2016 Corobrik Regional Student of the Year

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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

Pietermaritzburg Heritage Society

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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

Sophia Gray Laureates

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Architect(s): Al Stratford, Urban Foundation, ZAI, George Elphick, Nick Proome

Location(s) Bloemfontein

Keywords: ‘Reductive Innovation in Architecture’

In Memoriam

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Architect(s): Len Chiazzari, Patrick Holdcroft, Anton Aiello

Author(s) Jeremy Hathorn, Walter Peters, Ruben Reddy

Location(s) Richmond

Corobrik SAIA Awards of Merit and for Excellence

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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

2016 Venice Biennale

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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’

The Street Wilson drawing collection

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Architect(s): Michele Jacobs, Brian Kearney, Paton Taylor Architects Inc, William Street Wilson, Ludwig Mies, Philip Dudgeon

Author(s) Prof. Walter Peters

Location(s) England, Bedford Park

Keywords: New Publications, Durban Heritage Trust, Barrie Biermann Architecture, Michele Jacobs, social, technological, environmental conditions

130 years Paton Taylor Architects

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Architect(s): Ian Bell, Lauren Haiden, Dennis-lee Stols

Author(s) Prof. Walter Peters

Location(s) Pietermaritzburg City Hall, Durban train station, Emmanuel cathedral

Keywords: New Publications, competitions, Robertson’s building, Alexander Forbes, rejuvenation

Illustrated glossary of Southern African architectural terms. English-isiZulu

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Architect(s): Franco Frescura , Joyce Myeza, Dennis Claude

Author(s) Prof. Walter Peters

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

Architects' stepping stones

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Architect(s): Suren Indhul, Des Watkins, Ruben Reddy, Janina Masojada

Author(s) Prof. Walter Peters

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

2016 Afrisam-SAIA Award for sustainable architecture

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Architect(s): Chen Sagnelli Associate Architects

Author(s) Chen Sagnelli

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

Proceedings of We Design Conference: Background to the Conference

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Architect(s): Felipe Leal, Kelvin Campbell, Ruben Reddy

Author(s) Andrew Makin

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

Proceedings of We Design Conference: Durban inner city Local Area Plan

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Author(s) Paul Wygers

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

Proceedings of We Design Conference: Fostering Local Well-being (FLOW)

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Author(s) Joanne Lees

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

Proceedings of We Design Conference: The 10 + 10 Challenge

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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’