A f r i c a n I d e n t i t i e s + t h e A r t s

African/modernism: Meanings of modernism in South Africa

[A lecture delivered at the University of Johannesburg, 18 May 2022] The story of architectural modernism has been conventionally told through a particular range of narratives...

CONFERENCE | Making human settlements and public spaces in contexts of migrancy and xenophobia

[A panel discussion at the conference "RISE AFRICA 2022: Human Rights in the context of African Cities", 23-25 May 2022] Excerpt: "Housing shortage is a key...

CONFERENCE | Imagining South African landscape: Three centuries of landscape and society in Cape Town

The presentation is an inter-disciplinary study of the making of race, landscape and the South African city. Spanning three centuries, it reveals key historical moments where...

CRITICAL TOOLS (PART 4): Authorship in architecture

This is the fourth in a series on ‘critical tools’, that helps to enable critical readings of contemporary architecture in South Africa. In this lecture I...

CRITICAL TOOLS (PART 3): Is transformation moving at a 'slow rate'?

This is the third in a series on ‘critical tools’, that helps to enable critical readings of contemporary architecture in South Africa. In this lecture I...