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South Africa has constructed massive highways, iconic stadia, world-class airports and state of the art technology platforms. The target for Human Settlements ought to be nothing less than an enhanced vision, driven by a similar energy and passion to World Cup 2010 – this time round, Human Settlements 2030. It is important that we think creatively about large-scale human settlements as the stadia, airports and highways of our people.

- Tokyo Sexwale in the National Assembly, April 2010

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OUTH AFRICA IS a unique place of opportunity, enthusiasm and potential. Our successful hosting of the World Cup was testimony to that. This momentous time bears testimony to transformation imperatives that we as a profession are taking from theory into practice. Bearing in mind that the only constant is change, we take our future firmly in our own hands as we chart a way forward: A course of relevance, respect and representivity, enshrining access, equity, and justice, one that is sustainable and will contribute meaningfully to the further development of our young nation. SAIA is proud to host its 7th Biennial Convention under the umbrella of AZA2010. See you in Newtown!

OVER THE PAST few months it has been with a growing sense of excitement that we have witnessed the fruition of what was once just an idea bandied about a table of architecture types.

What if we were to collate the conversations, ideas and interventions which are currently shaping our cities and then create a platform where a diverse range of producers could exchange ideas, debate and design solutions? Architecture ZA.2010 grew at amazing speed into what is now an ambitious umbrella festival for the public, professionals and students aimed at unlocking potentials for our urban futures.

- DANIEL VAN DER MERWE, AZA2010 Convener

KEEPING THE MOMENTUM

From 21 – 28 September, South Africa’s first architecture megaevent will explore the diverse cultures and contemporary conditions of the South African city. AZA2010 will bring architecture back to the public domain with exhibitions, performances, films, a student congress and a star-studded multi-disciplinary conference.

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OVER A HUNDRED local and more than a dozen leading international thinkers from a diverse range of fields will be speaking at the AZA2010 conference.

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AZA2010 CONFERENCE THE INTENTION OF the conference is to generate – through conversation, exhibition and design – a manylayered, multi-disciplinary and intensely contoured image of Joburg: one that is made up by both mainstream and counter-cultural operators and that will bring architecture back into the sphere of conscious "cultural production." We will be looking to identify the cues that might stimulate alternative and dynamic futures for our cities that could serve as models both locally and globally. These are futures that are optimistic, sustainable, stimulating and, crucially, futures that are based on Johannesburg’s particularities and eccentricities – the very elements that should underpin a so-called “world-class city”.

Joburg is a many-layered city that is not entirely visible or legible in the same way to all its citizens.

This overall proposition of the conference will be broken down in five sessions. Each session is made up of five panels of inter-disciplinary speakers, giving presentations that are diverse, provocative and visually rich. And at AZA2010 the public is invited to buy a day pass and join in the dynamic exchange of ideas around Joburg’s past, presents and potential futures. This festival is about our lives and our cities.

“That Johannesburg has many names – Joburg, Jozi, Egoli, Goudstad, Mshishi, Quanzuma ziya donga, Soweto ext. 1 – is testament to its enduring inscrutability. Lacking the words to name it, meanings. At the same time, popular namings evoke visceral associations with and mythologise

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its long exceeded origins: gold and the earth that thunders.”

- Lindsay Bremner, Panel Chair. From her AZA2010 keynote address Folded Ocean, Mutating Territories in the Indian Ocean World

Bremner will also be conducting a master class at AZA2010.

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critics, historians, artists, city officials and others have called upon other names to capture its

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Historicities: The myths and fictions of Joburg over time It has been said that Joburg requires a huge amount of “insider knowledge” no matter which side of the fence you sit on. What are the implications of this for all kinds of cultural production? How does history inform the relics of the gold rush town - the underground city - the accelerated city - the “elusive metropolis”? How does architecture commemorate a painful past? How has a culture of “display and concealment” shaped Joburg? What are the roles of preservation in mapping the future?

Presentations range from issues around public space to Sophiatown; from African literature to township housing; from the mythology of stadia to the queer city.

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Nasrine Seraji

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EHRAN-BORN, LONDON-trained, Paris-based and a force for social awareness in architecture, Nasrine Seraji is heading to South Africa for AZA2010. “Somewhere in the 70s and 80s, architecture lost its conviction, its capacity for political activism, its power,” says Seraji. “It rose to stardom in the 90s; and when architects became as well known as pop singers, everyone started to desire architecture. Perhaps it is time to stop abusing the power of architecture and allow it to become once again a platform for criticality, social awareness, and political engagement.”

We spoke to her ahead of her visit to AZA2010.

The Islamic Republic of Iran came into being on 1 April 1979. What are your memories of that day?

When the Shah was boarding the flight to leave Tehran, in February, I was in London with my mother and brother, stuck there as the airports were closed. My father was in Iran and we were all listening to BBC World Service to be connected. The fragmentation had already started in my mind, the idea of family and unity had become irrelevant.

Words: FRIEDA LE ROUX, Images: HUGH FRASER and LITSHE LE GOLIDE

Do you think that growing up in the Seventies in Iran has influenced your take on critical thinking and architecture?

Yes and no. I was very protected in my formative life. In Iran, like other countries, all the unease was happening in the universities... I was 17 when I entered medical school in 1974 and there I saw for the first time a student being clubbed to death in front of my eyes. That is where I understood that the apparel of control was so strong that we were not seeing anything. “Eyes wide shut”. We were being told big lies about the progress in Iran. This coincided with my uncle, who was a medical doctor and also a colonel in the army, telling me that it would be better if I would stay home for a week until all the noise in the university had settled. That’s when I decided that I needed to move...

Teaching is a large part of your career.

Architects who teach seem to be much more critical of their art. Does academia necessarily nurture a more critical way of thinking?

Criticality has nothing to do with my teaching. It is directly related to my education at the AA. We learned to do architecture through critical thinking. We learned to make a difference through our architectural thoughts.

We also learned to make big things out of nothing. We were taught to be magicians. Teaching allows one to look at architecture from a different angle, a neutral point and therefore be more inquisitive about the field in which we practice.

"It is time to stop abusing the power of architecture and allow it to become once again a platform for criticality, social awareness, and political engagement."

You ask for architecture to again become “a platform for criticality, social awareness, and political engagement”.

Are you of the opinion that all “true” architects are, at heart, socialists or social-democrats? Is this not naïve in a time when corporate money - and the ties it has with government - makes the decisions?

I do not know what a true or false architect is!? I do not believe that it is of any importance whether architects are social democrats or any other political branch...

Architects have always worked with power. Right, left, centre, extreme right and extreme left. You can be critical and socially aware and politically engaged without being naïve. You can also be working with corporate money without being cynical.

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Seraji will also be conducting a master class at AZA2010.

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FRINGE EXHIBITION:

Sophiatown 1903-2010, the Last Five Years

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• BLOWING UP A STORM: In the Fifties the South African jazz movement was in full swing at the Odin Cinema, Sophiatown, where the Jazz Epistles (Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim, Kippie Moeketsi and Johnny Gertze) honed their talents.

• TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT: Novelist Marlene van Niekerk's book Triomf has recently been turned into a movie, re-igniting interest in the suburb.

• THE SECRET HISTORY OF WALLS: A mapping project by a group of UJ students who researched wall heights and property values in Triomf today.

The exhibition can be seen at AB Xuma House on the corner of Toby and Edward Roads, Triomf. The house is one of the few remaining structures from old Sophiatown. It is leased by the Trevor Huddleston Centre as the Sophiatown Culture and Heritage Centre.

That’s kind of the starting point of an exhibition that he is helping pull together to co-incide with AZA2010. Sophiatown 1903 – 2010, the Last Five Years is a visual summary of five different research projects. It’s mapping – and not necessarily the spatial kind – that makes up the bulk of the display.

The Trevor Huddleston Centre’s memory mapping and oral history project brings ex-residents to Triomf to recall the original settlement. The Centre for Culture and Languages in Africa’s project build the current community while finding new ways to engage with the past. Residents are given cameras to map their observations, a cooking club is started...

There are the displayed outcomes of nine UJ student mapping projects, which range from maps of every dog in the suburb to stop-frame films of interventions in the central park. Students were given freedom to explore, which bred unusual results. The dog mapping, for example, pointed to dog poisonings and patterns of gang activity.

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Words: CHARL BLIGNAUT Images: THOMAS CHAPMAN, STERKINEKOR, ARCHIVAL, STOCKMAN

COUPLE OF BAD histories were written and then Triomf was pretty much left alone for 30 years,” says Thomas Chapman. “Now there’s been a kind of awakening.” For the past three years social ethnographers, former inhabitants, current residents and students have been mapping the past and also the present of one of the city’s most emotive sites.

“Despite a change in name, the suburb remains a direct manifestation of the Group Areas Act, separating the man in the house from the man in the street,” wrote Chapman in his masters thesis Catalytic Memories: a Re-Urbanisation of Sophiatown.

Chapman’s thesis recognizes that the cosmopolitan public life of Sophiatown was fundamentally a result of the urban systems around which it functioned. So what if one was to propose interventions in Triomf that are inspired by the social systems of Sophiatown?

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Something’s up in Triomf, the Joburg suburb once known as Sophiatown – and it’s not just another Got Till It’s Gone pop culture romance with Kofifi shebeen life.

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• LESSONS FROM HOME: William Morafo is intrigued by how architecture has been employed as the new voice for the inhabitants of White City Jabavu in Soweto.

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In tandem with the conference paper on White City Jabavu there will be a photo exhibition at Roots Gallery in Jabavu, Soweto.

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• PLAYING ON IMAGE: William Kentridge will participate in a concert collaboration between himself, composer Philip Miller and pianist Jill Richards. A local première of a selection of films by Kentridge with live music.

There will be two performances at Arts on Main during AZA2010 presented with Arts Alive International Arts Festival.

• STATUE OF LIBERTY: William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx’s The Fire Walker is a welcome addition to the CBD’s public art collection. On her head, a woman carries a burning brazier/konka used to cook street food like mielies or smileys – roasted sheep heads – to sell to pedestrians. “I am happy to be part of the re-animating of the city,” says Kentridge.

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When I run out, or roar in a bus to you, I leave behind me, my love,

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JO’BURG CITY, I salute you;

My comic houses and people, my dongas and my ever whirling dust, My death That’s so related to me as a wink to the eye.

- Dr Wally Mongane Serote, from his poem City Johannesburg. He will be speaking at AZA2010.

Images: ISTOCKPHOTO, Oswenka image courtesy of UW MADISON

• LESSONS FROM ABROAD: Abu Dhabi in the UAE was little more than a fishing village 50 years ago. Now, rooted in petrodollars, a city arises that is coined the “new Las Vegas” regarding its mythical approach in city building. The Creative Potential of Johannesburg Myths: Lessons from Abu Dhabi is presented by architect and artist Martie Bitzer.

Other inter-disciplinary artists contributing to the conference include Marcus Neustetter, Stephen Hobbs, Rodney Place, Bronwyn Lace, Jonathan Cane, Zen Marie, Eugene Arries and Warrick Sony of the Kalahari Surfers.

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• OLD SCHOOL COOL: In his career as music producer and documentary maker, Lloyd Ross has done his share of time in Joburg basements. Bassments considers partying in a state of emergency at the multiracial Jamesons Bar and jiving to the sounds of a mixed migrant workforce in Jeppe Men’s Hostel.

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THE OSWENKAS, who have been practicing a form of pride pageantry in the basement of the Jeppe Mens Hostel for decades will be represented at the JoziNite celebration of inner-city culture under the highway in Newtown on Heritage Day at AZA2010.

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• RECOVERING FROM OUR HISTORY: Heritage boss Eric Itzkin looks at the re-imaging of Ghandi Square. This photo by Dutch photographer Lard Buurman forms part of his grittily optimistic pan-African city series. Buurman takes multiple images of a site and then digitally composites people and scenarios on it to create his final image.

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Trend guru Kai van Hasselt will be using Lard Buurman’s photos during his AZA2010 presentation and Architecture Student Congress workshop.

“South Africa is a country where mutually annihilating truths coexist

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- Rian Malan, discussing Joburg’s Diagonal Street, “where Chicago society architect Helmut Jahn’s Blue Diamond building and Kessavan Naidoo’s emporium of the African occult face one another across twelve feet of tarmac”.

Cedric Nunn will also be conducting a workshop at the Architecture Student Congress.

• FEAR OF CONTAGION: In his essay Shit and Fire, Kitsch and Razor Wire, academic Richard Pithouse employs philosophies, poems and a history of political structures to weave a narrative of Johannesburg and its disease of spatial and social exclusion. The image above is by acclaimed photographer Cedric Nunn. His presentation at AZA2010 is titled Stadia: The Ethos of the Day and Sport as the Opium of the Masses.

“South Africa’s cities, towns and their suburbs remain detached from the ubuntu/botho rural experience and perpetuate classist and culturalist Islands of Urbanization.”

- Fanuel Motsepe, SAIA Vice President and AZA panel chair.

• SPRING TIME: “In the early 20th century, newcomers to the city built their own homes of earth materials in indigenous designs, until these were forbidden by the white city fathers.”

Many other ingenious and social designs for urban existence exist, says Luli Callinicos, social historian, author and heritage consultant. Her presentation will explore the strategies of survival and defence of a population finding themselves, by virtue of their colour, crammed together – labourers, migrants in hostels, professionals and a rapidly growing underclass.

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Images: Homestead with matress fence courtesy of AMIRA OSMAN, Ghandi Square and Ntemi Piliso Street by LARD BUURMAN, Skyline with razor wire by CEDRIC NUNN.

entirely amicably.”

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Re-imagining Braamfontein South Pointâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core business may be student accommodation, but the developers are fast becoming city-life trendsetters.

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OUTH POINT has always been about Braamfontein and the rejuvenation of the area. We develop initiatives that improve the quality and functionality of public spaces in order to make Braamfontein a desirable place in which to work, live, study and play.

We have really just begun, but we are already seeing a large concentration of clean, secure, well-managed student accommodation, furnished residential apartments for young professionals, a hotel, gym, crèche, coffee shop and some bars. And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Randlords, the skyline cocktail lounge Joburg has been waiting for.

With the help of an extremely experienced professional team that includes architects, urban planners and design specialists, the goal of the Braamfontein project is built on a multipronged approach: Creating new multifunctional public spaces; converting streets into user-friendly, multi-purpose spaces (markets, street parties, sports events etcetera); improving the quality and standard of pedestrian pavements; improving street lighting and signage; bringing greenery into the precinct (upgrading parks and planting trees); creating very carefully thought through routes to move pedestrians and traffic in the precinct; the social needs of the people who use the precinct; a

strategically considered retail plan; security and crime prevention; and the urban management of the precinct on a daily basis.

Contact Details: 1st Floor, Mvelelo House, 19 Melle Street Braamfontein PO Box 31985, Braamfontein, 2017 Telephone: +27(0)11 489 1900 Facsimile: +27(0)11 339 2040 Email : info@staysouthpoint.co.za NATIONAL TOLL FREE number: 0800 STUDENTS (0800 78833687) www.staysouthpoint.co.za

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• BLUE MOVIES: Brenden Gray and Mocke J van Veuren consider the symbolic processes related to trauma in two recent sci-fi blockbusters, District 9 and Avatar. Both films attempt to come to grips with violence, anxiety and guilt in relation to cultural and racial “others” from the position of a white male subjectivity.

“It is worth contemplating an alternative in which the city, as an unintended consequence of striving for norms, becomes unreadable to both its administrators, owners and inhabitants. In this breach of ongoing sensible self-awareness, might the populations of cities produce something better than urban culture – an anomic, experimental

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- Jean-Pierre de la Porte, philosopher and urban thinker. His address at AZA2010 considers that city management is risk management but risk management is not a science.

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Historicities: Counter Cities What would happen if the city, striving for norms, were to become unreadable to those who live there? So then, what Joburg fringes are working against the norm? What about counter-culture and privatisation? Can activism reclaim an increasingly privatised public space? And the constant counter currents of immigration, of speed and position? How do we read alternative vocabularies and does the city breed rebellions behind closed doors?

Presentations range from informal communities in highrises to pavement economies; from rebellion in the suburbs to alien movies; from fashion gangs to cultural archaeologies.

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Bremner will be presenting a master class at AZA2010.

“The city is not authored by us, not written by us, but it writes us,” says Lindsay Bremner. “It writes us into being as city people, as people constituted by and living in ‘the constantly moving stream of money’ and does so as we live our every day lives in it.”

• REDRAWING THE MAP: Dr Lindsay Bremner, one of South Africa’s most respected architects and academics, will be returning home for AZA2010. www.AZA2010.org

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INDSAY BREMNER’S keynote address, Folded Ocean, is drawn from her current research into Indian Ocean territories. The cities Bremner focuses on are in a state of transformation.

They are mutating and she is trying to keep track of the changes.

Bremner has written and lectured extensively on the transformation of Johannesburg since the end of apartheid, including the book Johannesburg: One City Colliding Worlds (2004). Her latest book will be launched at AZA2010 – Writing the City into Being: Johannesburg 1998 - 2008.

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• HOMEFULNESS: Community organiser Josie Adler presents a paper that draws from her experience working on the extraordinary eKhaya Neighbourhood City Improvement District, which pioneers low-income residential regeneration in Hillbrow. These photographs are from the I Was Shot in Joburg project created by The Studio_Bernard Viljoen Foundation to train street kids to become photographers and generate income for themselves. The young students will be the official social photographers at AZA2010. Their pics will be posted on their website at www.iwasshotinjoburg.co.za

• CHAOS THEORY: Street trading in the inner city comes into focus throughout the festival. Tanya Zack presents a photographic exhibition of Little Addis: “A place that is known by the municipality as ‘the chaos precinct’; where locals can be rendered foreign in a world of Amharic, Swahili, Arabic, Shona, French and other voices.” In her conference presentation, Hannah le Roux says that if you “blur your eyes to the grime, the crime and the broken windows, there is something hopeful here, something potentially sustainable”. Katharine Rohde presents The Happy Hawker, a summary of her year-long research into street trading strategies.

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• WOTALOTIGOT: Are fashion tribes like the Smarteez, Swankers and Sappeurs reclaiming lost space by way of identity expression? Architect and fashion designer Karin Harcus-Harrison references the street at AZA2010.

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Le Roux will also be exhibiting at Goethe on Main, Arts on Main, with a show called feedingspace about Little Addis. There will be a discussion on “Addis in Joburg” that is open to visitors. Be at the venue on 25 September from 10h30 until 12h30.

• ILLUMINATING: Performance artist Steven Cohen’s film Chandelier was shot as the city’s “red ants” dismantled a squatter settlement. The film will be shown twice at AZA2010 in Newtown, in the area where it was first recorded.

JoziNite, the AZA2010 afterparty on the night of Heritage Day, features urban fashion, film, deejays and more.

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• MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY FACE: A subway mural project will be discussed

by Bronwyn Lace, commissioned to create public art in the Fietas area as part of the city’s urban upgrade. More than just beautifying the streets, though, the project aimed to reconnect with the spirit of a vibrant community razed during the apartheid era’s forced evictions.

“I would like to think of myself as an artist,” says Sorkin. “The way in which one strategically reconciles the autonomy of an artistic practice with the directly engaged character of a social one is the eternal juggling act.”

A walking tour of Fietas with Feizel Mamdoo will be on offer during AZA2010.

Michael Sorkin will be conducting a master class at AZA2010.

• GROWING PAINS: What changes the city? How do we imagine this change coming about? At AZA2010 Professor Edgar Pieterse will be launching the book Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Region, which he edited.

“Cape Town is undergoing a growth spurt,” he says.

“In the process a new city is being fashioned in front of our eyes but there are very few perspectives on the direction and meaning of this growth.”

Other books being launched at AZA2010 include Antoni Folkers’ Modern Architecture in Africa, Lindsay Bremner’s Writing the City into Being, Don Albert’s Sound Space Design and Fernando Menis’ Reason + Emotion.

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EW YORK-BASED Michael Sorkin is one of the most talked-about and outspoken architects working today.

He writes, teaches and builds, somehow keeping all the balls in the air.

The projects of Michael Sorkin Studio exist first and foremost on theoretical and experimental levels – they are part invention and part critique – and many of them focus on urban redevelopment schemes. They are grounded in the belief that the city is both the primary source of architecture’s social meanings and its main challenge. Particularly important to the Sorkin Studio is the inquiry into new forms of sustainable, post-technological cities.

At AZA2010, using examples from his own work, Sorkin will urge the systematic creation of alternatives to the disastrous pattern of megacities and sprawl. He will suggest the importance of both an ecological and artistic imagination in the face of a corporatist, multinational culture.

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Chandelier - John Hogg, Smartee - NONTSIKELELO VELEKO, Fietas Festival - BRONWYN LACE, Little Addis - HANNAH LE ROUX

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Marketing, Imaging and Branding of the City What is the role of branding in the production of a world-class city?

What are its codes and barriers?

Are we entering a "franchised landscape" of malls, outlets and gated developments? What can we learn from architectural and cultural innovations that got their brand strategy right? Are we interested in the formation of a public culture accessible to all or are we a society of differentiation?

Presentations range from public art to private transport; from the regeneration of Braamfontein to the development of the Gautrain; from urban eco-systems to the future face of townships.

Fernando Menis will be conducting a master class at AZA2010.

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ERNANDO MENIS IS reshaping the Spanish Canary Islands – with buildings, but also with branding.

When you first see the Magma Arts and Congress Centre on the volcanic island of Tenerife it seems to grow out of the earth as though lava has become

• MENIS AT WORK: Spain’s contemporary architectural vocabulary has come to express its post-Franco identity as experimental, daring, high-tech and crisp – like the Magma Centre. Over the past two decades the historical urbanscapes of Spain’s major cities have come to be overlayed with new and super avant-garde museums, cultural centres, memorials and social housing complexes.

frozen in concrete and stone.

Built by Menis Arquitectos it can be found 45km outside Santa Cruz, an area traditionally almost entirely dependent on seasonal tourism. Magma is part of a new drive on Tenerife, an ambitious building program under the directive of the mainland to establish Spain as an international business and cultural destination.

Menis was a fitting choice for the project. His style is distinctive - yet at the same time is it also undeniably a continuation of the bold architectural spirit which informs New Spain.

Now Menis is taking the rebranding of his island a step further. He is the Director of the Association Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Architecture, Urban Planning, Design and Advanced Tourism (El Laboratirio). Design, planning and architecture wants to refresh the tourist brand that is the Canary Islands while contemplating the future of the city-island.

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• HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU: To celebrate the Johannesburg Art Gallery’s collection turning 100, works from the collection will be exhibited at Hollard’s Villa Arcadia in association with Business and Arts South Africa.

National Treasures presents the work of over fifty artists – from the historically influential to the leading-edge contemporary. View master oil paintings by Gerard Sekoto and Irma Stern alongside modern classics by Penny Siopis next to sculptures by Kendell Geers and Jane Alexander while a William Kentridge film is juxtaposed with the photography of Pieter Hugo and Nandipha Mntambo... The exhibition runs from the 3rd until the 26th of September. Villa Arcadia is on the Hollard Campus at 2 Oxford Road, Parktown.

• WELCOME TO DISNEYLAND: “The Nelson Mandela Bridge’s construction is a gesture to divert attention from all the barbed wire, roller-shutters, ad hoc trading, open air butcheries and steaming cows-heads that make up Johannesburg’s ‘invisible’ city,” says Cheryl Stevens. She presents The Urban Bubble, a critique of the New Joburg facade. She argues that the inner city is promoted against the backdrop of a world-class city for the sake of capital investments.

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• THE SECOND GOLD RUSH: Joburg is billing itself as a “world-class African city”. Some of the country’s leading brand brains debate the effectiveness of the campaign at AZA2010.

They include advertising boss Gavin Heron (Hunt Lascaris) and brand gurus Jeremy Sampson (Interbrand) and Gordon Cook (Vega School).

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VERYONE WANTS A PIECE of Mokena Makeka, but all he wants is a piece of the city development action.

He’s one of South Africa’s most lauded architects and the principal and founder of Makeka Design Lab. He has been runner up in the bid to design the museum on Robben Island and was selected amongst 100 architects globally to be a part of the Ordos 100. He is a two-time recipient of the CIA Award of Merit and the 2010 winner of the Johnnie Walker Celebrating Strides Awards in Design. He sits on the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council for Design, is an external examiner at Columbia University and lectures at UCT. Oh, and he’s 33.

Makeka’s vision is to create a sound African aesthetic that serves the public and client, bringing dignity and grace to the built environment. One of his passions is the redesigning of Cape Town to be accessible to all of its citizens. He believes this can be achieved “through a radical re-imagination of where we should place development and by focussing efforts on public transport-oriented development. A public-friendly harbour for all income groups is key for the city to succeed at a global and local scale.” He firmly believes that great architecture and design is a human right.

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Moving the earth

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EKHAYA PROJECT

Joint Venture Architects (Savage + Dodd, Fee & Challis, Makhene & Associates) The Brickfields Social Housing project (Precincts D & E) and Phumulani – Brickfields Social Housing (Precincts A & B) shortlisted for this year’s awards is located in the inner city of Joburg, close to the Mandela Bridge and the historic Brickfields that date back to the 1890s. The development consists of several precincts and offers a model for economically and socially sustainable housing. It is a mixed use development of residential units providing retail units, live-work units and community facilities.

Savage + Dodd Architects In the Hillbrow community along Pietersen Street, the eKhaya Project took decayed, mismanaged buildings and recycled them to create healthy, economically and socially sustainable ones. eKhaya was the first of its kind to envisage forming a residential neighbourhood community. It developed through discussions concerning common interests between property owners and the community and it now covers 16 city blocks.

THE ALEXANDRA RENEWAL PROJECT

THE DALTON PRIVATE RESERVE

Who are the South Africans that are able to create placemaking buildings that shift paradigms, rejuvenate the planet and uplift people? The AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture was created to find out.

NTRIES NEEDED TO BE regenerative, restorative, responsive to environmental concerns and to bear the hallmarks of great architectural or social design. There are 11 finalists in two categories, buildings and works of social importance. The finalists are:

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ARG Design An educational facility that is an ecovillage was conceived for the relocation of the Spier Wine Estate farm workers’ school in the Western Cape. The team recycled materials and also a building - the main school building was reworked from an existing farm shed. The site has food gardens, recycles water, generates wind and solar energy and contains a constructed wetland, restoring indigenous landscape features.

Savage + Dodd Architects This is a joint urban regeneration project between government, the private sector, NGOs and community-based organisations in Alexandra township. The development aims to build a sustainable lower-end housing market, offering single room accommodation with shared facilities, including a creche and a community hall.

Spaces between clusters are arranged for urban agriculture. The project provides free hot water via a solar heat exchange system as well as rain water harvesting.

Koop Design The Dalton Compound is an integrated component of its environment, a 3 000-hectare reserve in rural KZN. It is the operational centre of the reserve with buildings that are flexible to various utilitarian needs yet offer exclusivity to guests staying at the Compound’s luxury accommodation. The project removed alien vegetation, recycling it for use. It created a vegetable garden for staff and employed and trained local villagers for its construction.

FORUM HOMINI PROJECT

Activate Architects A boutique hotel in a game and residential estate in the Cradle of Humankind in Gauteng, the team was inspired and constrained by the landscape of a World Heritage Site. Existing timber structures were reused by the community, endemic landscape was reintroduced, a water treatment plant built and a natural wetland accommodated. Drawn to an evolution narrative, the architects also commissioned a set of contemporary artworks by local South African artists.

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ARG Design, Anna Cowen Architects, Vernon Collis & Associates The design and construction of an Environmental Education Centre for Tsoga in Samora Machel, a marginalised apartheid township on the Cape Flats, is conceived to address degraded apartheid township conditions through engaging with environmental issues experienced by residents. The building was designed to support the activities of 200 participants already involved in urban food gardens, environmental education and recycling.

HOUSE - SAVAGE AND DODD

Savage + Dodd Architects The vision of this project was to create a live-work environment that would explore a multiplicity of living options on a suburban plot. The aim was also to create a habitat that would respond to its environment with as light a footprint as possible and to allow the occupants of the house to reduce their collective footprints. The result is a green (sub)urban village in one house.

THE LIFESTYLE GARDEN CENTRE

Nsika Architecture & Design The goal was to double the overall size of the Lifestyle Centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden Centre without utilising any additional power.

The team utilised solar shading devices, natural light and ventilation, solar powered heating, evaporative coolers, alternate chilled water production systems, rain water harvesting and grey water recycling.

They describe it as a true journey of discovery into the world of sustainability.

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Metropolis In Bishops Court, Cape Town, on a site entirely surrounded by trees, this family residence combines the concerns of contemporary and of sustainable architecture into a building which is firmly modernist but is integrated with its natural surroundings. The formal composition of the house is drawn from the image of a group of tree canopies and tree-houses floating over the ground plane, as an evocation of the forest on the site.

WOLWEKLOOF YOUTH CENTRE

ARG Design This learning academy and residential facility for unemployed youths was born from an unused public facility in the mountains outside Ceres in the Western Cape. The project transforms a fragmented complex into an eco friendly settlement through working with old buildings, creating new buildings and integrating the space to create unique experiential qualities. Simple construction methods were used to introduce ecological building concepts to trainees.

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Theoretical Positions & Experimentation The potential of Joburg as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;continuing experimentâ&#x20AC;? towards alternative futures: What are the codes and barriers and clues to legibility in experimentation? What about design as research; activism as research? How can we test some radical re-imaginings of our urban futures?

Presentations range from a film study of the Newtown flyover to inner city experiments; from interventions on heritage sites to lessons from choreography; from public art to earth architecture.

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OUNDER OF ENSAMBLE studio in Madrid, Antón García-Abril and architect and collaborator Débora Mesa, are one of the most exciting teams working anywhere in the world at the moment and they will be in South Africa for AZA2010.

Ensamble believes that a building only really reveals itself once it is finished. They encourage a constant flow of research and experimentation in their projects – which they are involved in at every stage, construction included.

They regard their style as “unitary and essential” and as trying to “resolve the complexity of the context with simple gestures”. It is this quest for the essence that inspires them.

They use building materials as a means to an end, never as a pre-destined factor.

In one instance – the Hemeroscopium House in Madrid – it took only seven days to build a structure that was in design for more than a year. Their Tower of Music in Valencia is a vertical interpretation of the more traditional horizontal university campus. According to the architects, it “looks for modernity inside tradition and allows its inhabitants to give life to the proposed spaces”.

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Ensamble Studio will be conducting a master class at AZA2010.

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• ROCK STARS: Ensamble Studio’s famous Truffle project is an experiment in natural construction. At AZA2010 Ensamble will present Density Versus Tension based on the built works and research projects developed by their office in collaboration with the Positive City Foundation.

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granted or even ignore are considered strange,

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anomalous or even extraordinary to visitors.

the unfolding of multiple scenarios.

- Dr Kathi Holt-Damant, author and lecturer in urban design. Her contribution deals with the architecture of navigation and her particular expertise in land, water and infrastructure.

- Don Albert. The celebrated South African architect and urban thinker will be conducting a student workshop at AZA2010.

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• SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM: Inspired by the rhythmanalysis of Henri Lefebvre, Mocke Jansen van Veuren presents findings from the Minutes Project, a study of urban rhythms and movement that uses timelapse photography and sound recordings to study selected spaces in Joburg over periods of 24 hours.

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• PORTRAIT OF A HIGHWAY: If Hal Foster is right and artists suffer from “ethnographer envy” then a trio of art brains are embracing their socio-cultural fetishes. The Flyover: Installation Artists as Ethnographers? is a presentation by Jonathan Cane, Zen Marie and Eugene Arries. It questions “social realties through spatial configurations” and comes up with a methodology that paints a portrait of the double-decker highway that runs through Joburg.

Other film makers contributing to the festival are: Mfundi Vundla, Christo Doherty, Lloyd Ross and Rashaka Ratshitanga

EXPERIMENTAL CITY

• DON’T HAVE A COW, MAN: Brett Murray’s Africa ruffled feathers when it was unveiled as winner of a public sculpture competition in Cape Town.

At AZA2010 Joburg’s public artworks fall under the spotlight in a presentation by Marcus Neustetter and Stephen Hobbs.

Fool’s Gold, Stephen Hobbs’ debut solo exhibition at David Krut Projects (140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood) explores public space in Joburg.

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Africa - courtesy of BRETT MURRAY, Peepdance courtesy of TALIA FREED, Mnutes - MOCKE JANSEN VAN VEUREN, Flyover - ZEN MARIE

Dance at AZA2010 is also represented by the Choreographic Centre Berlin. Their presentation looks at fundamental changes in terms of the relationship between artist and audience, choreographer and performer, author and co-author.

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• THIS ONE’S FOR MY PEEPS: Israel’s Tami Dance Company collaborates with local dancers for the AZA2010 festival.

Their acclaimed Peepdance asks the audience to look through holes in the wall to see the action. In the context of AZA2010, it offers multiple readings about Joburg city, its insider knowledge and its social exclusions – including, for choreographer Nimrod Freed, the nature of an event like the World Cup where the poor are excluded from the stadiums and must peep at the action through a television set. The performance is supported by the Israel Embassy in SA, The Israeli Lottery, Tararam and RoborSteel.

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ICONOGRAPHIES & SUSTAINABILITIES

Before and after the event – what are the pressures of local and global iconographies? How do design and political imperatives forge a lasting relationship?

What happens now to the stadia and the transport infrastructure, the "third landscape"? Do we need a dose of event resilience? How do diverse cultures move towards a single-minded sustainable practice?

Presentations range from Sandton and the challenge of the Gautrain to Alexandra and a sustainable future; from greening the corporate world to providing housing for the people; from building stadia to mining water; renewing landscapes to city buses.

“Architecture is involved in all kinds of systems, not just the use of materials and the consumption of energy.”

Duzan Doepel

Sustaining Sustainability

“What challenges will we face now that Green is over...?” That’s the final sentence of Green Dream by The Why Factory. The book argues that a new attitude and effort is needed after all the media hype has died down. Duzan Doepel and Eline Strijkers agree: “The development of sustainable architecture is only just beginning. We need to avoid trendy solutions and all the marketing language.”

South African-born Doepel is firmly at the forefront of international green urban solutions, sustainability research and new building models.

His Rotterdam practice, Doepel Strijkers Architects (DSA) works within a socially responsible framework on all scales – from CO ² reduction strategies for the city of Rotterdam to award-winning private residences.

“The next step in thinking about sustainability will require a better understanding of integrated design,” says Doepel. “Architecture is involved in all kinds of systems, not just the use of materials and the consumption of energy. A building is always an interface between communication, social structures, economics and use.”

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• SHO’T LEFT, DRIVA: Public transport in South African cities gets the AZA2010 treatment. Architect and urban designer Jonathan Manning questions the legacy of Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit project. Caroline Sohie of Arup Interchange Design will be talking about transport interchange design.

• ON THE ROAD: At the student workshops, collaborating artists Thiresh Govender and Katharina Rohde investigate the meanings of “car” in Johannesburg. Their workshop about taxi culture includes the creation of maps, a photo collage and a taxi tour of the city.

"There is a growing frequency of mega-events being awarded to developing cities, as opposed to developed cities, and these events have been shown to have significant positive and negative impacts on the resilience of the various urban systems and communities."

• NATIONAL TREASURE: “South African design is superior enough to be exported,” says curator Zahira Asmal. And that’s exactly what she plans to do.

She will be launching Designing South Africa at AZA2010. The ambitious project (www.designingsouthafrica.com) is documenting both the design output - from airports to logos, stadia to tourism branding - and the social impact of the World Cup. She plans to collate her results in a travelling exhibition and a book, which will include transcripts of two debates to be held at AZA2010.

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• TRAIN BRAINS: AZA2010 hosts several Gautrain experts. Pierre Swanepoel talks about the challenges facing the train. Dr Herman Joubert was responsible for all stations. Tom Steer talks about the future of our metro rail system’s urban integration.

the process of design is so economically/ greed driven that the relevant co-operation between disciplines is made impossible...

- Matthew Friedland from his talk, I Drive a Car...

Pierre Swanepoel will be conducting a master class at AZA2010.

• BIG BASH: 700-million people around the globe watched a football final play out at Soccer City. AZA2010 hosts Bob van Bebber, the lead architect behind the Calabash stadium.

Ironically, Van Bebber, a Wits graduate, wanted to design a stadium for his architecture thesis but his lecturer said that it would take too much engineering. He ended up designing a hotel school instead.

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Callabash - LEON KRIGE, GAUTRAIN, trains and bridge - HUGH FRASER

• BIG BASH: 700-million people around the globe watched a football final play out at Soccer City.

AZA2010 hosts Bob van Bebber, the lead architect behind the Calabash stadium. Ironically, Van Bebber, a Wits graduate, wanted to design a stadium for his architecture thesis but his lecturer said that it would take too much engineering. He ended up designing a hotel school instead.

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are those that showcase the outstanding talents of SAIA’s practitioners and have been an accolade of South African architecture at the highest level of achievement.

This year 35 projects were submitted for adjudication for the Awards of Merit from eight of SAIA’s regions and for the first time, a work of social relevance (not a built form) was received in the submissions.

"Values that enhance the holistic development of South Africa were sharply in focus as we continue to define what encapsulates excellence in architecture..."

The adjudication panel, chaired by SAIA’s President, Al Stratford, was comprised of retired Justice Albie Sachs, architects Amira Osman and Malcolm Campbell and Corobrik’s Marketing Director Peter Kidger.

• SUBMISSIONS: The Graca Machel Residence. left, was submitted to the competition

by Martin Kruger Associates.

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HIS YEAR’S COROBRIK-SAIA competition placed an emphasis on sustainability and relevance to the regional and national context in the design and delivery of projects that are exemplary of the art and science in the practice of the discipline of architecture.

“Values that enhance the holistic development of South Africa were sharply in focus as we continue to define what encapsulates excellence in the architectural realm under the age old Vitruvian tenets of commodity, firmness and delight, augmented in our time by ecology,” say SAIA. The awards are South Africa’s most comprehensive assessment of the industry’s achievements. They are a three-tier peer reviewed process which starts in SAIA’s regional institutes with Awards for Architecture. Projects are submitted biennially to regional committees and from these regional awards the next round of national Awards of Merit and the Awards for Excellence are made by a national panel.

All projects which receive Awards of Merit are automatically considered for an Award for Excellence. Projects that are deemed worthy of an Award for Excellence

COROBRIK-SAIA AWARDS OF MERIT & EXCELLENCE

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At the Johannesburg City Hall on the night of the 22nd of September, The South African Institute of Architects will be hosting a red-carpet gala dinner to present the Corobrik-SAIA Awards of Merit and Awards for Excellence for 2010. Twenty years on, the annual awards continue to raise the bar for South African architecture.

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A dynamic series of master classes at AZA2010 is a rare prospect for close engagement with some of the finest urban design minds in the world. Each class presents a focussed studio atmosphere of debate and design-thinking around local situations. The series aims to produce startling and innovative results that will prove a useful “product” of the festival. AZA2010’s master classes have each been accredited 6,0 CPD Category 1 points by SAIA, are endorsed by SACAP and are open to all practitioners, students and academics in the architectural profession. SACAP and AutoCAD has further offered master class bursaries to several outstanding students from tertiary institutions across the country. The Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI) has subsidised the SA & Spanish Luminaries master class. The master classes will be presented in parallel at 12 DECADES, MAIN STREET LIFE and ARTS ON MAIN in the Maboneng precinct from 26-28 Septemeber. Register at www.aza2010.org

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WISH YOU WERE HERE: In her master class Nasrine Seraji proposes to “explore the idea of postcards in an era of dematerialisation”.

Seraji graduated from the Architectural Association in London in 1983 before founding her renowned Paris firm Atelier Seraji Architectes & Associés (ASAA). ASAA has become a laboratory for both practice and research. The studio regularly collaborates with consultants in the fields Johannesburg." of landscape design, engineering, graphic design, programming, economics © NS and management. Seraji is Professor and Director of the Meisterschulen für Architektur of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna as well as Director of the École Nationale Supérieure de Architecture de Paris-Malaquais.

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OLD MINING, WITH its headgear and golden dumps, provided not only the city’s wealth but also its iconic images. Johannesburg was synonymous with its mine dumps. Today this has changed. The dumps are disappearing. The mining belt is contested terrain.

This rare master class, featuring a who’s who of famously conscious international architects, is directed at developing alternative scenarios for the mining belt. It will lay claim to the territory through opportunistic, experimental design thinking aimed at generating new urban relations, inventing new infrastructures and reasserting the mining belt into the urban imagination.

WORKING WITH THE MASTERS

Mining for new ideas: how to turn a defunct iconography into a sustainable future for Joburg city.

SAT 25 – TUES 28 SEPT AT MAIN STREET LIFE

RE-IMAGINING THE MINING BELT

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MICHAEL SORKIN, DUZAN DOEPEL, LINDSAY BREMNER, HILTON JUDIN

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PANISH ARCHITECTS Fernando Menis, Antón García-Abril and Debóra Mesa Molina are world famous for offering a fresh and organic eye on design and construction.

The Spanish luminaries will come together to conduct an intensive threeand-a-half-day, on-site, studio-based workshop that focuses on the Joburg inner city. For the class they will be teaming up with local design legends Peter Rich and Andrew Makin.

The C&CI International Design Master Class is limited to 30 practising architects, recent graduates and academics comprising 10 teams of 3 to participate in the design investigations.

The practice-based master class will comprise lectures, visual presentations, technical talks, site investigations in Newtown, practical studio workshops and ongoing crit and discussion sessions of the design investigations undertaken by the participants. It is ultimately a “design refresher” course that will energise and enthuse practising architects.

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"The people we serve and the people we do not serve have answers to their survival and environment, from which we should as professionals have the deference to learn."

- Peter Rich, from his AZA2010 lecture

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CONVERTIBLE CITY: Ivan Kucina’s master class draws on his experience of the illegal building sprawl of Western Balkan.

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HIS EXPERIMENTAL MASTER class looks for new models of development strategies from as far afield as Vienna and the Balkans while honing design thinking on all scales.

In response to the independence movement in the Western Balkans, the process of geopolitical fragmentation has been termed Balkanization. Meanings of the word have expanded to connote any kind of urban dissolution.

It has come to mean a counter action to the integrating and homogenizing effects of globalization. This system is providing a new model of urban development.

Kucina’s master class will see him teamed up with other leading urban experimentalists to explore strategies to convert Joburg’s lines of division – its physical and mental boundaries – into places of positive social exchange.

Ivan Kucina is assistant professor, practicing architect, outdoor artist and an initiator of much of the

current research on informal urban processes in the Balkan. Born in Belgrade in 1961, he graduated from the University of Belgrade and now works there. He is the co-founder and Program Director of Belgrade International Architecture Week.

Dustin A Tusnovics opened his practice Architecture & Communication in Vienna in 1996. His research in design and sustainability through technical processes can be seen in a variety of projects realised in Austria, Germany and Italy. At Salzburg University of Applied Sciences he developed a new project-based interdisciplinary curriculum focusing on sustainability (ecological, economical, social and cultural) through innovative timber construction and design.

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BALKANISATION

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IVAN KUCINA & DUSTIN A TUSNOVICS

PIERRE SWANEPOEL, BRIDGET HORNER AND OTHERS

RAPID THOUGHT TRANSPORT: ARCHITECTS RE-IMAGINE SANDTON

• SANDTON 2010 & SANDTON CIRCA WW2: The more things change the more they stay the same: “Joburg’s histories of isolation and exclusion remain visible in the contemporary landscape of Sandton,” says Swanepoel.

At AZA2010 he sets out to dream up a new Sandton.

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NE OF SOUTH Africa’s most provocative and respected architects and urban designers, Pierre Swanepoel of StudioMAS, presents the latest in the GIFA series of design master classes that unearths architectural alternatives for Joburg which seek to combat the endless unrolling of its privatized, repetitive and franchised environments. This master class will tackle Joburg’s most intractable space: the fortified and privatised nucleus of Sandton – as it is attacked by the potentially powerful public device of the Gautrain.

Swanepoel has been honoured with awards for many of his buildings, including the Billiton HQ in the Joburg CBD, the ABSA Towers North, Westcliff Estate and the Courtyards on Oxford.

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SACAP COMMITTED TO THE FUTURE

THE SOUTH AFRICAN Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) is the regulatory authority for the architectural profession, established under the Architectural Profession Act no 44 of 2000.

Architectural professionals are required by law to be registered with SACAP, and once registered they are accountable to SACAP in terms of providing services to the public. SACAP places great importance on educating the public in this regard; thereby raising awareness so that the public can approach SACAP as a resource for information and advice.

Registered persons have a responsibility to practice in a professional and ethical manner; both for the benefit of the public and also for the profession as a whole.

VISION

Make a positive impact on the built environment by ensuring excellence in performance and service delivery by fostering collaborative relationships with role players in order to: • Effectively regulate the architectural profession • Ensure proactive public protection • Develop a quality, sustainable and professional skills base • Ensure good governance within SACAP • Promote the role of the architectural profession in transformation • Create a legacy of humane and sustainable architecture

VALUES

accountability: accepting responsibility for actions and decisions cohesiveness: shared, coherent values and aspirations excellence: promoting high standards integrity: ethical behaviour, honesty and trustworthiness respect: ethos of dignity, tolerance and consideration transparency: appropriate disclosure of information and open debate

WHAT DOES SACAP DO?

THE ANNUAL STUDENT CONGRESS

SACAP has demonstrated its ongoing commitment towards furthering Architectural Education and supporting students by allocating study grants on an annual basis: a total of 41 study grants in 2009 and 91 study grants in 2010.

The Annual Student Congress sponsored and initiated by SACAP through the Heads of Schools forum is an important event which is organised “by the students for the students”.

It is part of an overall strategy to encourage a culture of activism amongst students and assists them in engaging with the public and their profession of choice thereby exposing them to International and National forums.

SAINT GOBAIN/ SACAP?

Regulating the architectural profession in the spirit of “batho pele”.

MISSION

SACAP’S ONGOING CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Provides for registration of persons within the architectural profession: • Renewal of Registration through Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Protects the public against unprofessional conduct by Architectural Professionals: • Investigates complaints and violations of the Code of Professional Conduct by Registered Persons • Prosecutes persons doing architectural work without registration Guides and promotes the Profession in line with National Imperatives and International Best Practice.

Education is an important and vital mandate and its responsibilities in terms of the Act are: • Sets standards in Practice, Education and Training in consultation with the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and the Council for Higher Education (CHE) • Accredits higher learning institutions offering Architectural qualifications – There are currently 11 accredited learning sites (ALS) • Makes provision for study grants under the SACAP Education Fund annually

THE EDUCATION FUND

The Education Fund aims to foster excellence, accessibility, diversity and sustainability in the Architectural Profession. Based on principles outlined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and in order to enhance the skills levels within the Architectural Profession, architecture has been identified as a scarce skill by the Construction Education and Training Authority (CETA). SACAP makes funds available to deserving candidates for architectural education through a grant scheme under the Education Fund.

Regular validation visits to all the accredited Universities to ensure the upholding of standards and ensure the standards are upheld and to encourage transformation in the skills supply to the Profession.

WHO GETS GRANTS?

Many students find it difficult to obtain study loans or bursaries, as donors often require evidence of performance at a tertiary institution, or a guarantee which parents are often unable to give. The SACAP Education Fund grant is aimed at such students who might be excluded from study due to financial need.

Study grants are open to all years of study in the field of architecture and the successful applicants are required to provide SACAP with their results regularly. They are also required to attend the Annual Student Congress sponsored by SACAP. SACAP is engaged in and supports a number of initiatives aimed at continuing professional education, transformation and development of the profession.

SACAP CONTACT DETAILS

education fund – grant information contact person Nontembeko Tutani postal address P.O. Box 408, Bruma, 2026 physical address 1st Floor, Lakeside Place, Cnr Ernest Oppenheimer Avenue & Queen Street, Bruma, Johannesburg, South Africa tel +27 (0)11 417 0900 email nontembeko@sacapsa.com

THE ART OF THE WORKSHOP The outcomes of the ASC’s multi-disciplinary workshops are intended for publication. Students will be engaging with artists (Katharina Rohde and Thiresh Govender’s taxi project; digital artist Christo Doherty along with musician Warrick Sony; Rodney Place), filmmakers (Aryan Kaganof’s Live Graffitti Wall), photographers (Cedric Nunn and Jodi Bieber), trend analysts (Kai van Hasselt) and, of course, leading architects (Don Albert).

• DOWNTOWN LAGOS: Dutch photographer Lard Buurman’s composite photos of urban Africa will form part of a presentation by Kai van Hasselt at AZA2010. Van Hasselt will be conducting an ASC workshop.

• SPACE CASE: Hugely respected South African architect Don Albert will be promoting his new book at AZA2010. Sound Space Design is a monograph enacting the carefully considered genre-breaking irreverence at the core of Don Albert & Partners’ design work.

Albert will also address the conference and conduct a student workshop.

• MISS SOWETO: Celebrated photographer Jodi Bieber will conduct an ASC workshop.

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TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE STUDENT SYNERGY

HOSTED BY THE University of Johannesburg, this year the annual inter-varsity Architecture Student Congress (ASC) has forged a synergy with AZA2010.

ASC 2010 will be structured around the theme After Life. The term is surrounded in hidden meaning, connecting architecture, life, vegetation, sports and even the yet-to-be-realised city. It talks of a future rather than of a cataclysm or a past.

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Space Case Courtesy of DonAlbert, Downtown Lagos - Lard Buurman, Soweto - Jodi Bieber / Jacana.

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SOUTH AFRICAN architecture has seen a dramatic increase in attention (and quantity) during the past decade or so. I believe that one of the reasons for this is the closing of the gap between architecture and the other design disciplines.

The School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg’s position as part of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, makes us perfectly placed to explore opportunities to develop even closer interaction and

inter-disciplinary design development – and for UJ to host the 2010 Architectural Student Congress and partner with SAIA and AZA2010.

- Prof Christo Vosloo, Head of Architecture, UJ FADA

several student competitions are announced during the ASC – the C&CI Sustainable Design and C&CI Moving Space Architectural Short FIlm competitions, the SHiFT Social Housing student design prize and the Murray & Roberts Des Baker competition and exhibition.

The C&CI Architectural Student Design Competition focuses on sustainability in architectural design. The brief for the 2010 competition was Re-Imagine the City. Winners will be announced at an awards function on JoziNite on Heritage Day at AZA2010.

TAKES ON THE CITY

THE WINNING FILMS in the C&CI Moving Space competition will be screened at the Architect Africa Film Festival as well as the Jozi Nite afterparty during AZA2010. For the 2010 competition students were invited to focus a critical lens on the urban environment and re-imagine the city. Six projects were given the green light and a production budget: A Procura de Pancho (University of Cape Town) Set mainly in Maputo, an experimental mix of animation, illustration and live action that follows the journey of a student discovering the work of architect and artist Pancho Guedes.

No Mans Land (Big Fish School of Digital Film) A social documentary that asks viewers to look at the magnificent structures that shape our built environment – and then consider the

role of the construction workers who built them.

Pretoria Philadelphia (Open Window) An experimental short utilising live action with 3D animation in which an abandoned, decaying Pretoria is rejuvenated in a dazzling and fantastical dance of the imagination.

Time In Concrete (University of the Witwatersrand) The filmmakers test the Jozi rhythm by following the beat of two characters inhabiting the city, a businessman and a homeless man.

Timmy (University of Cape Town) Sometimes Timmy is a giant shadow

• AFTER THE PARTY: In 2010 the prestigious Murray & Roberts Des Baker Student Architecture Design Competition asks students to explore issues around the World Cup and post-event spaces left behind in our cities. This year’s winners will be announced at a gala award ceremony at the end of the ASC.

on a building, sometimes a puppet engaging with a sculpture. He offers viewers a new perspective, a new way of looking at the concrete jungle.

Touching Benches (University of the Witwatersrand) Architects have designed city benches that can also be utilised by street traders. It is these benches that are the stars of Touching Benches – a quirky short using 3D animation.

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Images: After the Fan-fest by LEON KRIGE and Illustration JOANNA FOR BREINSTORM

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, THE REAL PRICE OF GOLD

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Words: CHARL BLIGNAUT Images: LITSHE LE GOLIDE

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UY ADAM AILION has the Midas touch. As a student last year he won the Corobrik Student Award and then he and Andrew Bell were winners of the C&CI's Moving Space Architectural Short Film Competition for Litshe le Golide. We spoke to him ahead of the photographic exhibition of the film.

You’re a bit of an over-achiever?

[Laughs] I guess I just try hard. I can’t not be busy.

How did you arrive at a photo exhibition of the film?

Actually, Andrew and I conceptualised the film as an exhibition too. We took over 10 000 stills for the movie because it starts off very wide and

Talk to me about the story of gold in Litshe le Golide. It’s a critique.

Well, we knew that Joburg had an ethnographic story, something unique that the rest of the world didn’t know. We know everyone has a romance with the city – a love/hate relationship that we don’t know quite how to put our finger on. Our ethnographic story is that we came from gold. It’s that narrative that makes Joburg a First-World-cum-ThirdWorld city – because of the speed with which the city developed, concrete from gold. We wanted to show the scarring and the uniqueness of Joburg and we wanted to make it compelling, a music video rather than a documentary.

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The SHiFT 2010 Student Social Housing Competition will be exhibited at AZA2010 and this year’s winners will be announced at the festival.

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of gold have been mined, barely enough to fill two Olympic-size swimming pools.

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very slow and builds – so we treated each shot as if it was a still. At the climax of the movie 3 000 stills explode at you. Of these we selected 25 for the exhibition. It took us a month to choose.

Why the water, the swimming pool?

For us there were so many levels to the film. It was the contrast with dust, the fluidity of gold, and of course the National Geographic quote that we used at the end – it’s powerful stuff.

All that plundering for so little reward.

By the end of the movie you realise the proportion between the city and the swimming pool.

• CONCRETE FROM GOLD: Guy Adam Ailion and Andrew Bell conceived Litshe le Golide, the stand-out short film in C&CI’s Moving Space competition 2009.

The film will be screened at AZA2010.

The filmmakers are also presenting an exhibition of stills from the film. See it at the AngloGold Ashanti's Gold of Africa Museum Gallery at Turbine Hall in Newtown from September 21.

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AT THE ARCHITECT AFRICA FILM FESTIVAL 2010 THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT COMES TO LIFE ON THE BIG SCREEN

The PAVILION2010 is a temporary structure initiated by students of the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits and sponsored by Southpoint. It is a platform to promote student work.

Physical displays are integrated into the design of the pavilion. The design deconstructs the geometries of a soccer ball in reference to the idea of the city being altered by the big event.

Nu Metro V&A Waterfront

10-16 September

PORT ELIZABETH

Nu Metro Boardwalk

10-12 September

DURBAN

Nu Metro Pavilion

17-23 September

BLOEMFONTEIN

Nu Metro Loch Logan

17-19 September

JOHANNESBURG

Nu Metro Hyde Park

24-30 September

• CONCRETE JUNGLE GYM: My Playground takes us to Denmark, Japan, China and the USA, leaping over buildings and stairways as we follow freerunners through the city. See it at the Architect Africa Film Festival.

• MAN VERSUS THE MOUNTAIN: Ashraf, Mne, Zoliswa and Arnold fight for survival in their informal settlements in the shadow of Table Mountain. Then the city council wants to clear an entire settlement and their lives are thrown into turmoil. When The Mountain Meets Its Shadow is a new South African feature directed by A Kleider and D Michel and will be screened at the Architect Africa Film Festival at AZA2010.

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Stills from MAN VERSUS THE MOUNTAIN and MY PLAYGROUND Courtesy of AAFF and the directors.

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THE CITY ON THE MOVE

A selection of leading international features are on offer in five cities across the country throughout September. Local content will be in the spotlight with two films that explore the issues around urban regeneration, specifically focussing on the lead-up to the 2010 World Cup. Tickets available at Nu Metro. Details at www.aaff.co.za

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The state of housing in South Africa has less to do with architecture and more to do with the process of architectural interventions. We have innovative solutions in hand. Perhaps our greatest failure is the advocacy of these innovations, says DIANE ARVANITAKIS of the Social Housing Focus Trust (SHiFT).

TWO SECTORS ARE largely responsible for the shaping of our built environment, three quarters of which consists of dwelling units. They can be broadly categorised as the informal sector and the large/extra large scale turnkey developer.

The involvement of architects in these two sectors is, to say the least, limited. The informal sector, preoccupied with matters of survival, can’t afford such professional services. The large developers, driven by bottom lines and short term objectives, too often compromise on the “soft”, qualitative value-add expertise of the architect.

At approximately 200 000 units per annum, the government provides only about a third of the housing stock delivered in the market every year, yet government must take responsibility for its failure to develop a clearly

defined spatial framework at neighbourhood level.

Such a framework would manage the spatial impact of developers; the limitations of the town planning environment; and the tender processes which discourage the inclusion of design professionals. It would also be able to address the failure to recognise the smaller scale economy and its innovative and significant contributions in the retail and housing sectors.

Big business has to be accountable too. Supersize Me developers prefer large scale roll-outs which are easier to make profit from. Financial institutions have been averse to taking any risk, with 45% of our population falling into the “gap market” category.

There’s no lack of architectural innovation in the subsidised housing sector. Few countries deliver the diversity of housing models that South Africa does and just as few have to deal with the complexity of issues that inspire our innovative solutions. In fact, more and more countries will look to South Africa for its response to the inclusionary practises which have began but are currently really just a seed being watered.

Our challenge lies foremost in the desegregation of our suburban neighbourhoods through affordable, mixed use, medium density infill interventions distributed evenly throughout the urban landscape. This process has hardly even began.

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Images couretsy AMIRA OSMAN and HUGH FRASER

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We have all these incredible, vital, living, informal environments that are self-constructed to a large degree. they talk, they eat, they play, they sing, they dance. The THORSTEN DECKLER

informal should really give city planners and architects strong clues about how people, within their limited field of choice, make the best decisions for themselves.

- Thorsten Deckler, who will talk about Informality at AZA2010

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A PROCESS, NOT A PRODUCT

I always argue that the term is as limited or as broad as our definition of it. Vernacular settings can provide lessons for architects in housing design, more than institutionalised architecture can. Architectural history traditionally deals with individual buildings, while vernacular architecture is always about town planning. The community is the basic architectural unit. This is the daily faceto-face social network – the pattern of interaction that ultimately defines the settlement. The scope of housing extends beyond the boundaries of a particular site.

You’ve said that unpredictability is a characteristic of successful urban places.

According to Dewar and Uytenbogaardt, the quality of urban spaces can be “re-discovered” and “re-interpreted”

In what way is housing related to crime, to xenophobia, to anger, to frustration - among officials, researchers, funders, policy makers and communities?

I can offer you some more questions: How can these challenges be addressed without reverting to handouts – and instead lead to true empowerment? How can we achieve effective delivery and community participation? How can we challenge the perception that limited funds means poor quality?

We are architects after all! We are expected to have innovative ideas regarding low-cost design that is also high quality. We are believed to be able to not only envision, but also assist in realising the ideal of places where people enjoy the daily experience of their surroundings and subsequently care for and further develop them. That the phrase “housing” is a process rather than a product is perhaps a cliché. Yet, it is as relevant today as ever.

Read the entire interview with Amira Osman at aza2010.org

• COMMUNITY BUILDING: The public can come to Newtown during AZA2010 and watch a pavilion being constructed in front of their eyes. Sarah Calburn and Dustin Tusnovics along with teams of women and youngsters will produce “a live exercise in alternative building materials” and an example of innovative thinking around social housing. Lombard Insurance, Business and Arts South Africa, E-lite, Basil Read, Federation of the Urban Poor and The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts & Culture are supporting the creation of the pavilion, which will be dismantled after the festival and re-erected as a community centre in Thinasonke informal settlement in Gauteng.

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THE TERM “HOUSING” is often debated and its connotations seen as negative among architects.

through time. Individual, creative responses can be encouraged through design products and processes. Wright refers to it as the “alchemy of design and social interaction” and this responds positively to the complexity of housing developments within urban settings.

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IMAGE COURTESY AMIRA OSMAN, render courtesy of SARAH CALBURN

DR AMIRA OSMAN is a Senior Researcher in the area of Sustainable Human Settlements at the CSIR. We asked her about the state of architecture and the housing challenge in South Africa.

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AZA PUBLIC DEBATE

On Tuesday the 21st of September, AZA2010 and UJ Institutional Advancement will host a public debate around the realities and challenges facing social housing in South Africa.

The Challenge of Social Housing in South Africa

• ONE BRICK AT A TIME: Shumba Blok will be at the AZA2010 Trade Exhibition. This revolutionary project creates interlocking blocks on site. they need no cement to lay the blocks and also no plaster or paint on the finished structure. Best of all, it reduces building’s carbon footprint by 50%.

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• I ♥ JOZI: Johannesburg seen through the eyes of its first post-apartheid generation.

Young South Africans at the Africa Culture Centre made maps, drawings, collages and texts to illustrate the multiple ways they understand, navigate and live in the city. Through the personal nature of their work, the exhibition creates a vision of modern Johannesburg that, in contrast to its frequently perceived hostility, is personable, engaging and, for many, a home. See it at the AZA2010 Trade Exhibition in Newtown.

TALK THE WALK: AZA2010 offers a range of rich walking tours of Joburg with unique insights into the history and architecture of the city.

A City Centre Walking Tour by Atelier Altshuler identifies and discusses landmarks in the CBD. Feizel Mamdoo offers a walking tour of Fietas. Marcus Neustetter invites you on his 25 Minutes to Soweto tour and the eKhaya Neighbourhood Project in Hillbrow invites you downtown and up the lift to see what happens when a group of concerned individuals gets together and cleans up the neighbourhood.

Walking tours are offered on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 September.

Get more details at aza2010.org

• BOOK YOUR PLACE: AZA2010 will be staging a trade exhibition in Newtown, the epicentre of the festival. This crafty bookshelf called Reading Johannesburg will be designed by Notion Architects to serve as the exhibition’s book stall. It will be donated to the Yeoville Library afterwards. www.AZA2010.org

Illustration ALL MY CITIES, brickmaker SHUMBABLOCK, Reading Joburg Design NOTION ARCHITECTS

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• PARTY LIKE IT’S 2010: The C&CI will be hosting the official AZA2010 conference afterparty, JoziNite, open to all delegates to the festival, with tickets on sale to the public. The party happens in Newtown on Friday 24 September from 18h00 and incorporates the anouncement of the winners of the C&CI Sustainable Architecture Awards as well as a screening of the C&CI Moving Space Architectural Short Film Competition's winning entries. JoziNite celebrates the informal cultures of Joburg. It features live bands, top deejays and a group of fringe traders as well as food and beverage stalls.

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Sappeurs Smarteez Oswenkas Steven Cohen Moving Space Peepdance Deejays Come celebrate Jozi under the M1!

PROUDLY PRESENTED BY THE C&CI

Illustration HANNAH FOR BREINSTORM, highway image courtesy LITSHE LE GOLIDE , public art photographed by EBEN KEUN

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BLOCK PARTY

HERITAGE DAY FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER, NEWTOWN, 18H00 - LATE.