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SAIA BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES CVs
Hassan Asmal (President)
Hassan was born in 1955 and grew up in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal.
After initially studying at the ML Sultan Technikon, he obtained
a B Arch degree at the University of Cape Town in 1982. He
gained experience in several practices before establishing
ACG Architects and Development Planners in 1993, where he
is a partner.
The practice was awarded the SAIA Award
for Excellence for Hartleyvale Sports Stadium in 1998. In
2002 Hassan received the SABTACO Joint Initiative Award first
prize for leadership in the Unicity Council Chamber Project
for the City of Cape Town, and the SAIA Award of Merit was
conferred to the practice for the Unicity project in 2003.
His practice was part of an association of firms that received
an Award of Merit on Friday for the Cape Town International
Conference Centre.
Hassan was elected President of the Cape
Institute for Architecture in September 2002 and since then
has served on the SAIA Board as one of the elected members
of the Management Committee. In August 2004 he was elected
Vice-President of SAIA.
He has lectured and has been an external
examiner at the University of Cape Town and the Peninsula
Technikon. He was a member of the Advisory Council for the
Wesley College of Education and also served on the Planning
Advisory Board of the Provincial Government of the Western
Cape as well as a number of community organisations.
As a keen sportsperson, Hassan Asmal has
achieved honours in soccer and cricket. He is married and
has three children.
Al Stratford
(Vice-President)
Al Stratford entered his working career as a draughtsman in
the field of structural steel and engineering. Although he
has no formal education in architecture he is now registered
as a professional architect after passing a special qualifying
examination with SACAP.
Al became a member of SAIA and the BKIA
Regional Committee in 2002, and was elected President of the
BKIA in 2004. Since then he has been a board member of SAIA
and convenor of the Habitat committe. In August 2006 he was
elected as Vice-President of SAIA. He has won awards for industrial
design from the South African Bureau of Standards and a SAIA
Award of Merit for Stratfords, an office and conference venue
in East London. He is also the author of a number of patents
and registered designs.
Al became interested in architecture in
1971 and set up his own building company where he designed
and built houses before moving to Durban to take up a position
with a multi-disciplinary professional practice. In Durban
he worked across disciplines and later moved to Building Design
Group with Paul Mikula and then on to Marek Masojada, an engineer
who shared offices with Hans Hallen. With the advent of the
Urban Foundation, Al set up a Self Help Housing Centre in
Umlazi with the late architect Peter Malefani. In 1980 Al
moved back to East London where he designed and built his
own home and at the same time patented the Winblok ® pre-cast
concrete window system. He then set up the national business
infrastructure for the Winblok® system.
His overarching focus is on the development
of a broad based approach to habitat starting with ‘DNA’
grounded in sustainable technology linked to the transference
of skills and the development of new compact urban communities.
To this end, he is practicing with his partners, in Buffalo
City East London where, with the assistance of private developers,
foreign aid and the municipality, he is working towards the
establishment of sustainable high-density affordable development
and urban renewal.
Al is married to Iris, and they have three
sons one of whom is also an architect.
Patricia (Trish)
Emmett (Immediate Past President)
Trish Emmett is the third woman in the history of the South
African Institute of Architects to serve as its President.
She obtained a B Arch Degree from the University of Natal
in 1977 and later completed a Diploma in Datametrics from
Unisa, majoring in Quantitative Management.
In 1991 she formed the practice of Emmett
: Emmett Architects with Frank Emmett. The practice has won
two South African Institute of Architects Conservation Awards;
one KwaZulu-Natal Institute for Architecture Merit Award and
fourteen Conservation Awards from the City of Durban.
In 1998 Trish became the first woman to
be elected as President of the KwaZulu-Natal Institute for
Architecture, a position she held for two consecutive terms
of office. She has served as Chair of the Natal Architectural
Heritage Committee and has been the Chair of the South African
Institute of Architects Heritage Committee from 1999 to 2004.
She represented SAIA on ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments
and Sites) for a number of years.
Trish is currently a Council member of
the southern region of the African Union of Architects as
well as a Council member of the International Union of Architects
for Region V Africa. She was born is Johannesburg and has
three children.
Eugene Barnard
(Chair Practice)
Eugene was born and bred in Indwe in the north-eastern Cape.
He obtained a B Arch Degree from the University of Port Elizabeth
in 1979. After four years in the employ of the then South
African Railways architectural division, he entered private
practice. He is founding and managing partner of the firm
MEG Architects in Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. The practice
has received two national and one regional Award of Merit.
He completed a Diploma in Arbitration in
1991 and is a fellow of the Association of Arbitrators and
practising arbitrator. He represented the Limpopo Institute
on the first SAIA Board of Representatives under the present
constitution, has served on the Practice Committee since 1994
and has been involved in mid-career training programmes run
by the institute. He was recently elected as Chair of the
Practice Committee.
Eugene is married to Stella and they have
three children.
Llewellyn van
Wyk (Co-opted)
Llewellyn van Wyk holds a B Arch degree from the University
of Cape Town. He formed the architectural practice of Norman
Calitz and Llewellyn van Wyk in 1982 and completed over 300
buildings throughout Southern Africa. In 1984 he was elected
as a City Councillor of the City of Cape Town, becoming Deputy-Chair
of the Town Planning Committee in 1986, Deputy-Mayor in 1993
and Deputy-Chair of the Executive Committee in 1995. He was
a founder member of the 2004 Cape Town Olympic Bid and served
on the Board of the Olympic Bid Company.
Llewellyn has served on SAIA’s Board
since 1991 and was elected President of the Institute in 1999,
serving a three year period to August 2002. He is also the
current President of the Commonwealth Association of Architects.
He launched the Digest of South African Architecture in 1985
and served as the editor until 2003. He joined the Division
of Building and Construction Technology at the Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research in 2002 where he now works
in the programme for Construction. Llewellyn has delivered
several keynote papers at international and national conferences
and workshops, and is the author of a number of published
papers on the subject of architecture, the built environment
professions and the constructed environment.
He is a keen reader, enjoys good food (cooks),
wine and conversation. Llewellyn is married to Virginia. He
has a daughter and a son.
Jan Ras (Co-opted)
Jan obtained a B Arch degree from the University of the Orange
Free State in 1985 and received Ozalid’s Award for the
best thesis (Title : An Indian Market Garden). After his in-service-training
period he worked for the practice Househam McPherson and Henderson
until he established the Jan Ras Architects’ Group CC
in 1989 for cost-effective design solutions. The practice
received an honourable mention in Architecture SA’s
Project Awards for the Chapel at 44 Parachute Brigade, was
awarded one of the top twenty South African Houses in the
Everite Facades Competition, and received a SAIA Award of
Merit for NRE House and a FSIA Honourable Mention for House
Meintjes.
Jan has been a lecturer at the Department
of Architecture, University of the Free State since 1987.
He has been a guest lecturer at the Universities of Natal
and Port Elizabeth and an external examiner at the Universities
of Pretoria and Port Elizabeth. He has organised a number
of international and national congresses and events, and was
the coordinator of the University’s Centenary celebrations
in 2005.
Jan has served as a committee member of
the FSIA since 1988 and was the region’s representative
on the SAIA Board of Representatives since 1997. He was elected
President of SAIA in August 2002 for the 2003-2004 term.
Jan is married to Minnie and they have
three sons. He enjoys architecture as a backdrop to life,
food, music, wine and people.
Ntsindiso Charles
Nduku (BKIA)
Ntindiso was born in Qumbu in Eastern Cape and matriculated
at St Bartholomew’s High school. He obtained his Diploma
in Architecture through Peninsula Technikon in 1991 and worked
as a Technician for Garden Cities House Developing Company
in Pinelands and Rod Palmer Architects in Cape Town from June
1991 to February 1993. He then worked for Archon Architects
in Mthatha till the end of 1993. In 1994, he worked for the
Department of Works and Energy in former Transkei.
Ntsindiso obtained his BAS and B Arch degree
at the University of Cape Town in 1997 and 1999. After completing
his studies he worked for Osmond Lange Architects and left
at the end of 2002. In 2003 he opened his own Architectural
firm (NN Architects) and was elected to Border Kei Institute
of Architects committee in 2004. In October 2006 he became
the first black president of the BKIA. He was appointed the
Convenor of the SAIA Habitat Committee in November 2006.
He plays soccer and enjoys travelling with
his family as much as he can. Ntsindiso and his wife Nomaphelo
have three children.
Laura Robinson (CIfA)
Laura studied architecture at the University of Cape Town,
graduating in 1980. After working in private practice for
ten years she joined the then National Monuments Council serving
as Regional Manager of the Western Cape. After spending 9
years working at the NMC Laura took up the position of Director
of the Cape Town Heritage Trust in 1999. The Trust has received
a number of awards for its contribution to heritage conservation
in the City of Cape Town, amongst these being the Cape Times
Centenary Award for the project Heritage Square in 1998, the
SAIA Conservation award for the same project in 1999, and
the Molteno Medal for contribution to heritage conservation
(2003).
Laura has been involved in heritage work
at both national and international level, having undertaken
an expert mission to Australia to assess one of their potential
World Heritage Sites, as well as undertaking desktop studies
for the World Heritage Centre for sites in Kenya, Zanzibar
and Ethiopia. She has been a Board member of the Robben Island
Museum since its inception in 1997 and has represented that
Institution on the SA World Heritage Convention Committee
and on several occasions as part of the SA delegation to the
World Heritage Committee. Laura is the current President of
the Cape Institute for Architecture and as a member of the
Board was appointed convenor of the SAIA Heritage Committee
in November 2006.
Her particular passions are World Heritage
matters and anything to do with gardens and landscape. She
has a daughter.
Deborah (Debbie) Preller (CIfA)
Debbie graduated with a B Arch degree from the University
of Pretoria in 1978. She worked in Pretoria, Worcester and
Kingston, Jamaica before co-founding Groenewald Preller Architects
with Trudi Groenewald in Cape Town in 1990, which at the time
was the first fulltime architectural practice with women partners
only. The practice concentrates on technical, commercial and
defence projects, schools, health centres and community driven
projects in disadvantaged areas.
Debbie is a member of RIBA and the Jamaican
Institute of Architects. She is a former chairperson of Society
of Architects, Planners, Engineers and Surveyors (W Cape).
She has served on the Cape Institute for Architecture since
1998 and was elected CIA President in 2004-2006. She is currently
serving a second term on SAIA’s National Board. She
was the convenor of the Communications Committee in 2004-2006
and was elected to the SAIA Management Committee in November
2006.
Debbie has been external examiner and moderator
at universities nationally, lectured part-time in both Applied
Design and Interior Design at the Cape Peninsula University
of Technology, and Simulated Office supervisor at UCT. She
serves on SACAP's Validation Panel of Assessors for Visiting
Boards, as well as UCT's Engineering & Built Environment
Faculty Board.
Debbie has been an adjudicator for the
SAIA Award of Merit and Award for Excellence; Regional Merit
Awards (W Cape, Free State and Northern Cape); National Architecture
Student Awards (Corobrik & PG Smartglass) and Cape Times/Caltex
Environmental Awards.
Debbie was born in Pretoria, was married
long ago and is child free. She paints (oil & watercolours)
and travels too seldom nowadays. Previous interests in scuba
diving, cycling and hiking have also mysteriously gone out
the window.
Johann (Jo) Staats
(ECIA)
Johann obtained a B Build and a B Arch degree from the University
of Port Elizabeth (now the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University)
in 1992 and 1994 respectively, obtaining distinction for his
Final Year Design Treatise. He joined the established firm
of Schmidt, Hicks & van der Walt in 1994 and became a
partner in the firm during 1998, resulting in a name change
to SWS Architects and finally, in 2000 to Studio D’Arc
Architects Eastern Cape.
Johann served as a Councillor of the Provincial
Heritage Resources Authority of the Eastern Cape from 2003
until March 2006, also acting as Vice-Chairman of the PHRA
Permit Committee, while holding the office of Vice-President
of the ECIA. He also served on the SAIA Practice Committee
for a period of two years to August 2006. He serves as an
External Examiner for the Final Year Thesis Examinations at
the NMMU and serves on the Mandela Bay Heritage Trust, an
independent NGO derived from the ECIA Heritage Committee.
Johann was elected President of the ECIA in October 2006,
and was appointed Convenor of the SAIA Education Committee
in November 2006.
Johann was born in East London in 1969
and is the proud father of a son.
Lombard Delport
(FSIA)
Lombard obtained a B Arch degree from the University of the
Free State in 1994. He immediately started his career at Hennie
Lambrechts Architects in Bloemfontein in 1995. He is now a
Senior Architect at this practice and his responsibilities
include a wide spectrum of architectural services. The practice
has achieved several Awards of Merit from the FSIA. Lombard
joined the Free State Institute of Architects (FSIA) as committee
member in 2001 and was elected vice-President in 2004 and
President in 2006. He also serves as Representative of the
FSIA on the Mangaung Local Municipality’s Aesthetics
Advisory Board from 2002. He was appointed Convenor of the
SAIA Benefits Committee in November 2006.
Lombard was born in Kimberley. He is married
to Therése and they have a daughter, Lara. The family
has travelled extensively on architectural sight-seeing trips
abroad. In the little spare time he has, Lombard races mountain-bikes
and he is a motor sport enthusiast.
Ivor Daniel (KZNIA)
Ivor commenced working for various practices and part time
study through the University of London for RIBA Part 2 examinations
in 1965. In 1970 he started his full time studies at the University
of Natal, graduating with a B Arch degree in 1975. He set
up practice in Durban in 1976. In 1978 he set up a new practice
under the style of Daniel & Associates. The practice received
recognition and publication for a number of projects in the
field of conservation and industrial architecture. In 1985
the practice merged with Stauch Vorster Architects of which
he became a director, responsible for the design and marketing
portfolio. He is also currently Managing Director of Stauch
Vorster Architects (Durban) and is responsible for monitoring
"design delivery" through all projects. In 2002
he established a branch office of SVA in Dubai.
He served on the Natal Institute of Architects
Committee from 1972-1974 and on the KZNIA Committee from 2004
- present, as Vice President taking care of the Membership
and Marketing sub-committees. In 2005 he chaired SAIA's Bid
Committee for the UIA Congress 2011, and was a member of the
Promotions Committee in 2005-2006. Ivor is the current President
of KZNIA and was elected as a member of the SAIA Management
Committee in November 2006.
Ivor is the Chairman of the Durban Botanic
Gardens Trust and has a sustained interest in design and environmental
issues. He was born in Port St Johns and continues to enjoy
strong links with the Transkei Wild Coast. Ivor and his wife
Margaret have two children.
Gerrit Agenbag
(LIA)
Gerrit obtained a B Arch degree from the University of the
Orange Free State in 1977. He joined the the Pretoria-based
firm Vermooten du Plooy en Oosthuizen Architects in 1981 and
became a partner two years later. In 1987 he opened a new
office for the practice in Tzaneen, and after the relationship
was dissolved in 1990, established his own practice, Gerrit
Agenbag Architects, which was renamed Polygon Architects in
1992.
Gerrit is in partnership with his children,
a son and daughter - both recently qualified Architects -
and his daughter-in-law - a town and regional planner. The
practice is well-established with a wide range of public and
private sector clients. In 1995 the firm was awarded the winning
concept for the then Northern Province Legislature Office
Complex.
Gerrit has been a member of the regional
committee for a number of years and was elected President
of the Limpopo Institute for Architecture in 2006. He was
appointed convenor of the SAIA Promotions Committee in November
2006.
Dietrich Ungerer
(MPIA)
Dietrich obtained his B Arch degree from the University of
the Witwatersrand in 1985 after working for LTA Building for
a year. Dietrich always approached architecture with a passion
and was awarded the DM Burton Prize for the Best All Round
Student in all years of studies at Wits. He started his professional
career at the offices of H Taljaardt Carter and Partners in
Pietersburg in 1986.
He moved on to his own practice in Alberton
in partnership with Danie Strydom in 1987, practicing in Johannesburg
till 1994. In 1995 he relocated to the Lowveld where he was
in charge of a new office for TC Design Group in Nelspruit.
This association lasted for three years until TC Design Group
decided to close the office in Nelspruit and Dietrich preferred
to remain in the wonderful climate of the Lowveld where he
has been practicing as Dietrich Ungerer Design Studio since
1998.
Dietrich was the Vice President of the
Mpumalanga Institute of Architects for the past two years
and also served as the regional representative on the SAIA
Benefits Committee. Dietrich, the current President of the
Mpumalanga Institute of Architects, was appointed convenor
of the SAIA Communications Committee in November 2006. He
is totally committed to maintaining the professional status
of Architects.
Dietrich and his wife Susan have two sons.
Eugenie van Schalkwyk
(NCIA)
Eugenie obtained a B Arch degree at the University of Port
Elizabeth in 1987. After working for a few architectural firms
in Springs and Kimberley she registered with the South African
Council for Architects in 1990 and started her own practice
in Kimberley later that year. Her interest lies especially
in Housing and Restoration Work.
Eugenie was a board member of the Northern
Chapter of Architects and later secretary of the Northern
Cape Institute for Architecture. Eugenie was President of
the NCIA in 2001-2002, and was elected President again for
the period 2005-2006. She is also a board member of the Northern
Cape Heritage Committee and the Municipal Aesthetic Committee
of Kimberley. Eugenie is currently serving a second consecutive
term on the Board.
She is married to a Quantity Surveyor,
has two teenage children and lives on a game farm. Her hobbies
and interests are horses, reading and art.
Ian Alexander
(PIA)
Ian obtained a B Arch Degree from the University of Cape Town
in 1964 and wrote the RIBA qualifying examination in 1968.
In 1965 Ian did a ‘Resort Hotel’ as his qualifying
thesis and as a result joined the growing practice of Colyn
& Meiring who were involved with major appointments including
hotels. By 1969 Ian had completed the Heeringracht Hotel as
the associate in charge, and after further involvement in
the Trust Bank series of buildings Ian was asked to move to
Pretoria to take charge of the Colyn & Meiring office
there. A further series of large buildings followed, the practice
had probably been the largest in SA in the early ‘70’s.
After a ‘palace revolution’ in 1979 however, Ian
left the practice and joined MV3. Many years of involvement
with work for the Kwazulu Government followed, including the
completion of the Ulundi Legislative Assembly and Government
Buildings. In this time Ian became a specialist in deep-space
office buildings. MV3 became a very successful and large practice,
doing the ‘Lost City’ project (other than the
Palace Hotel) and Armscor amongst many prominent developments.
Ian began practicing as a ‘one man’
practice in 1997 and currently lectures part time in ‘Law
& Contract Management’ and ‘Architectural
Practice’ at TUT. Ian has served on the PIA Committee
since inception, and is the current President. He has been
a member of the SAIA Practice Committee since 2003.
Ian was born in Kimberley, met his wife
Gill at UCT and they have two adult children, Robyn is Chief
Copy Editor with Marie Claire and Evan is a Veterinary Doctor.
Ian is a wildlife and bird ‘nut’.
Su Linning (SAIA Executive Officer)
Su graduated from the University of Pretoria with a B Arch
degree in 1973. During the early seventies she worked for
Brian Sandrock in Pretoria, the Stauch Vorster Partnership,
respectively in the Pretoria and Windhoek offices. After relocating
to Swaziland early in 1976, she worked in the Mbabane offices
of the Myles Porter Pugh and Horn partnership and was involved
in a wide variety of projects. She served as honorary secretary
of the Swaziland Association of Architects, Engineers and
Surveyors for a number of years.
After returning to SA in 1982, she established
her own practice in Johannesburg, which she ran from her home
studio, until she took up the position of Executive Officer
of the SAIA in 1997. She is a Trustee of APIGIS, Trustee (alternate)
of Bepmeds, and serves on several SACAP committees as the
Institute’s representative.
Su is married to Mike and they have one
daughter.
Bryan Wallis
(SAIA Director Practice & Education)
Bryan was born in Johannesburg in 1944, matriculated from
Krugersdorp High School in 1961 and completed his B Arch degree
at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1974.
He entered fulltime employment as an architectural
assistant with the practice Radomsky Smith and Partners in
1970 in Johannesburg. He transferred to Durban in 1972 and
from 1974 to 1976 was employed as a registered architect.
The practice portfolio comprised largely commercial and residential
projects.
In 1977 Bryan joined the Council for Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR) as Technical Secretary to the
Agrément Board of South Africa and was later appointed
Manager of Agrément South Africa. This work involved
the technical assessment and certification of innovations
in the fields of building and construction. Between 1993 and
2005 he held various managerial appointments in the field
of building research and application within the CSIR’s
Division of Building and Construction Technology, including
a period as provincial Programme Manager, stationed in Stellenbosch.
He retired from the CSIR in 2005 and is currently employed
as Director: Practice and Education in the South African Institute
of Architects (SAIA).
Bryan is married to Kathleen. They
have a daughter and two sons, living in different parts of
South Africa. His interests are eclectic and include the outdoors
and photography.
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