ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 44 JULY/AUGUST 2010

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Model Stadiums - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: SAIA: Strategic evolutionary framework - Al Stratford; Noero Wolff Architects in five international exhibitions - Julian Cooke | Theme: World cup stadiums ::: Cape Town stadium - architect’s report; Soccer City Stadium – Nasrec, Johannesburg: Critique - Leon Krige; Cape Town Stadium - architects’ report; The urban design of the Cape Town Stadium precinct - Henri Comrie; Moses Mabhida Stadium – Durban - Walter Peters; Africa’s wildest stadium - Mike Bell; Mbombela Stadium: critique - Roger Fisher; Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg: report - Alvin Roon; Bafokeng Stadium revisited: critique - Alan Lipman; The view from inside - Nic Coetzer; Peter Mokaba Stadium – Polokwane - Schalk van der Merwe | Competition: Bhisho arhitectural competition; Offices of the Premier of the Eastern Cape; Comrie + Wilkinson Architects & Urban Designers (Cape) - Architects’ notes Perspective: The view from inside - Nic Coetzer | Review: The architecture of happiness - Alain de Botton - Julian Cooke | End piece: A matter of scale - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 43 MAY/JUNE 2010

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Slice of history - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Werdmuller: Can/Should it be saved? - Stephen Townsend; Peter Rich Awards; Obituaries | Theme: Class of '84 ::: Introduction - Julian Cooke; Jacqui Perrin: Design Studio - PG Raman; Sally Tsiliyiannis: GAPP Architects and Urban Designers, CT; James Green: MWLF Architects ; Darryl Croome: Arthur Quinton Darryl Croome Architects; Tarna Klitzner: Tarna Klitzner Lanscape Architect; Peter Schellinger: Architekt SIA SWB; Michael Crosby: Wilson Associates, Dallas, Texas; Vaughan Davies: AECOM Design and Planning, Los Angeles; Carin Smuts: CS Studio Architects; Anya Van der Merwe Miszewski : Van der Merwe Miszewski Architects | Competition: Bhisho arhitectural competition; Offices of the Premier of the Eastern Cape; Comrie + Wilkinson Architects & Urban Designers (Cape) - Architects’ notes Perspective: Climate Change: Does the sun delimit our design? - Nic Coetzer | Review: 10 years + 100 Buildings: Architecture in a Democratic South Africa: Ora Joubert (ed) - Andries Samuel | End piece: Eyeless in Pretoria? - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 42 MARCH/APRIL 2010

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Crisis – of purpose and practice - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: A man, a plan - Stratplan - Al Stratford | Theme: New Buildings ::: Architecture of city sense: Circa Gallery, Johannesburg: studioMAS - PG Raman; Creative conservation in design: St Katharine’s School, Parktown and Hilltop house, Cape Town: Rod Lloyd - Rod Lloyd; Suburban counter-attack: Ron Kirby - Alan Lipman; The first National Bank Building, University of the Witwatersrand: Savage + Dodd - Paul Kotze and Katherine Munro | Opinion: What’s the problem with architectural research? - Francis Carter | University master programme pieces: Probing the notion of site: Re-use of abandoned buildings in Pretoria’s CBD - Philip du Toit and Catherine Karusseit; urban culture | city [re]imaging - Emma Lewis | Perspective: Pushing through the wall of decorum - Nic Coetzer | Review: Art South Africa: Art, Architecture and Auctions, December 2009 Sean O’Toole (ed) - Noëleen Murray | End piece: Public participation – retrospective thoughts - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 41 JAN/FEB 2010

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Filtering the locality - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Planning for transformation - Al Stratford | Theme: Hotels and lodges ::: Hotels: an introduction - Evon Smuts-Rogers; Hotel at Danger Point, Gansbaai: Jane Visser - Simon Birch; Renting a room on the Highveld Express: Holiday Inn Express, Sandton, Woodmead; Louis Karol Architectural - Robert Silke; Two Cape Town hotels on Orange, Gardens; Taj hotel, CBD dhk - Peter Fehrsen; Atlantic Beach hotel: Design Matters - Evon Smuts-Rogers; Protea Hotel, Clarens B + ArchW Architects; Transferable themes: Idwala and Ukhuni bush retreats in KZN; Elphick Proome Architects - Joy Brasler PG Raman | Perspective: Being utopian is in our blueprints - Nic Coetzer | Review: 10 Years + 100 Buildings - Ora Joubert (ed) - Jean-Pierre de la Porte | End piece: These foolish things remind me of yore - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 40 NOV/DEC 2009

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Projects make history - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: 5 Transformation and education - Al Stratford; World building of the year award | Theme: Project awards: SAIA Project awards 2009 ::: Noero Wolff Architects, Comrie + Wilkinson Architects and Urban Designers, 26’10 South Architects, Thomashoff + Partner Architects and STCS Swaziland; Selosesha public library, Thaba Nchu: Bannie Britz - Ora Joubert; Centenary building, University of Pretoria: Earthworld Architects - Tessa-Anne Roux; Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture 2009: More ways of being an architect - Walter Peters; | Perspective: Being utopian is in our blueprints - Nic Coetzer | Review: 10 Years + 100 Buildings - Ora Joubert (ed) - Jean-Pierre de la Porte | End piece: These foolish things remind me of yore - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 39 SEPT/OCT 2009

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Education on the move - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Film, review, letter, exhibition - Julian Cooke | Monograph: Michael Scholes - Paul Kotze | Theme: Buildings for education ::: Gordon’s Institute for Business Science: Henri Comrie, Comrie + Wilkinson - Morne and Marguerite Pienaar; Mutating Typology – Seven Fountains School, Kokstad East Coast Architects - PG Raman and architects’ response; University of the Western Cape Life Sciences – technology for poverty reduction dhk architects - Justin Snell; Recent buildings for education Revel Fox and Partners - Peter Puttick; University of Fort Hare: new auditoria and teaching complex: East London campus; Ngonyama Okpanum Associates in association with Native Architecture - Al Stratford | Essay: Mombasa – An African market city - Gerald Steyn | Practice: Tsamaya Sentle: Go Well - Amanda Gibberd | Perspective: Specstatic Conundrum - Nic Coetzer | Review: Talking Architecture: Interviews with Architects by Hanno Rauterberg - Paul Kotze | End piece: Pemba holiday - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 38 JULY/AUG 2009

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Rootless and rooted - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Architecture’s interface with engineering - Al Stratford | Theme ::: post-’60s generation: Refereed article: the work of José Forjaz Arquitectos, Maputo, Mozambique, José Forjaz Arquitectos - Lucien le Grange; Interpretation centres: Mandela’s yard : Peter Rich Architects - Anne Fitchett; Celebrating African creativity: Mapungubwe: Peter Rich Architects - Peter Rich, Anne Fitchett, Tim Hall; Emakhosini multi-Media Interpretative Centre: Vuselela Architects Consortium - Andrew Makin; Lupini quintet: Lupini Architects - Alan Lipman; Contemporary Indian Architecture: beyond the ’60s - PG Raman | Essay: The lost footprint - Danie Theron | Review: On the outside looking in: colliding with apartheid and other authorities: Alan Lipman - Richard Martin | End piece: Eloff street reminiscences - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 37 MAY/JUNE 2009

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Small is big enough - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: More theory - Al Stratford | Theme ::: Small projects: Small is still beautiful in the Free State: Henri Pretorius & Phillip Nel - PG Raman; Optical Centre: 26’10 South Architects & Natoma Architects Inc - Alex Opper; Parkhurst shops: Kate Otten - Architect’s notes; House alteration: Metropolis - Architects’ notes; House Wolff: Noero Wolff Architects with Ilze Wolff - Heinrich and Ilze Wolff, House Dragne: Amanda Lead - Architect’s notes; Two courtyard additions: Paul Elliot Architects - Architect’s notes; Horizontal house: Richard Honikman - Jean Nuttall; Modul8: Strey Architects - Architect’s notes; Studios: Elmo Swart Architects - Architect’s notes; Sport and aftercare facility: Mathews & Associates Architects CC - Architects’ notes; Building (r)evolution: The Matrix… cc Urban Designers & Architects - Gareth Leonard; Thandokhulu secondary school: Anesa and Barbosa - Architects’ notes; BnF, Paris & NLSA, Pretoria: Dominique Perrault & Jeremie Malan Architects, Gandhi Maseko Architects, Lingelihle Impendulo Design Architects - Gus Gerneke | Professional practice: Putting the procsa document into practice - Stan Segal | Essay: The possible dream - Danie Theron | Review: The architecture of happiness - Alain de Botton - Noëleen Murray | End piece: Glorious Georgian - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 36 MARCH/APRIL 2009

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Taking the opportunity - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Exclude or include? - Al Stratford; Notes on Jorn Utzon - Wallace van Zyl | Theme ::: Green building: Low-income housing: the potential role of housing policy as a broader development instrument in South Africa - Dave Dewar; Three precinct scale projects - Henri Comrie; Design in low-cost housing - Julian Cooke; Inside the little boxes - Rodney Harber; Housing, houses and the power to choose - Richard Martin; Urban housing: Rediscovering tenements - Marie Huchzermeyer; Educating for flexibility - Amira Osman and Raymund Königk | Essay: Ornament, crime and all that - Danie Theron | Professional practice: Putting the procsa document into practice - Stan Segal | Review: Thinking architecture - Paul Zumthor | End piece: Marabastad, Tshwane - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 35 JAN/FEB 2009

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Process not product - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Looking for relevance - 2009 - Al Stratford | Obituary: Jorn Utzon - Gus Gerneke | Community building: Turn-around jump shot: Makeka design studio - Nic Coetzer | Bloemfontein houses: Flickers of hope in a sea of indifference: Jan and Petria Smit - PG Raman | Theme ::: Green building: Greenshops Financial Services Centre: Vernon Collis and Anna Cowen in association - Julian Cooke; Mapungubwe: Peter Rich - Architect’s notes; Creating learning spaces programme: East Coast Architects - Architect’s notes; Kommetjie house: Architecture co-op - Architect’s notes; Urban renewal: Turbine square: TPSP Architects - Jean Carey Nuttall | Essay: Tenting at Tietiesbaai - Danie Theron | Review: The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique - Paul Kotze | End piece: Venice recalled - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 34 NOV/DEC 2008

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Materials Matter - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Intercontinental Musing - Al Stratford | Theme ::: Sophia Gray Lecture: The van der Merwe Miszewski Partnership - Anya van der Merwe; The van der Merwe Miszewski Partnership - Anya van der Merwe; Highveldt House: Architect’s notes; “Maison”, Franschoek, Western Cape - Architect’s notes; Cape Town International Convention Centre 2 - Architect’s notes; Urban Interventions: Integrating marginalised urban users - Urban solutions architects + urban designers - Ludwig Hansen | Materials: The life of materials - Peter Buchanan | Criticism: Placelessness to place: Lilliesleaf Liberation Centre: Mashabane and Rose - PG Raman | Essay: Klipwerf Blues - Danie Theron | Review: In site and on site, the architecture of Diamond and Schmitt - Noëleen Murray; Claus en Kaan Architecten: The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique - Paul Kotze | Housing: Firewalls in informal settlements - Julian Cooke | Professional practice: Making friends with the client: professional consultant services agreements - Stan Segal | End piece: Officialdom in disarray - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 33 SEPT/OCT 2008

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Old cities new cities - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Durban 2014 - Hassan Asmal; Outline profile of an urban design graduate - Fabio Todeschini | Theme ::: Urban design - How urban design should be developing in this country - Fabio Todeschini; What is urban design? - Erky Wood and Barry Senior; The urban design and planning work of Louw and Dewar: Piet Louw Urban Designer and City Planner & David Dewar City and Regional Planner; Kruispad integrated development project: Jac Snyman and Associates, Architects and Urban Designers - Herman Potgieter; Two Tshwane projects: Holm Jordaan Group (Pty) Ltd Architects and Urban Designers - Gerrit Jordaan; Ridgeside Development: Albonico, Sack and Mzumara - Monica Albonico; The Umhlanga Ridge New Town Centre: GAPP Architects Urban Designers - Erky Wood | Opinion: Making sense of nonsense - Erky Wood; Towards a reflective approach - Henri Comrie; Urban Design and public participation - Erik Schaug Essay: The Body Tectonic - Leigh Hanekom; Taking a line for a walk - Danie Theron | Review: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency To Local Resilience - Alan Lipman | End piece: Whose cities are ours? - Alan Lipman |

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUE 32 JULY/AUG 2008

In this issue:
Editor's Notes: Sheds and Silos - Julian Cooke | Notes and News: Working in joint ventures - Hassan Asmal; Gawie Fagan Award - Etienne Louw | Theme ::: Industrial Architecture. From sweat shops to places of production - PG Raman; Introduction: Vernacular sheds, beautiful sheds, decorated sheds - Julian Cooke; Firminech (Pty) Ltd - Stephen le Roith Architects and Harold le Roith and Partners; Zenda Waltoo - St Group; Sports buildings, CBC Boksburg - Elmo Swart Architects; Discount Steel Building - Llew Bryan Architects; Critique: Tsoga Environmental Centre; Arg Architects, Anna Cowen Architects and Vernon Collis and Associates; Noëleen Murray; Gottlieb Distribution Centre - Elphick Proome Architects Inc; Novasun Distribution Centre - Neodimensions Architects | Critique: Locating a language of display - Lunetta Bartz Architect - Maja Marx | Research: Early demountable buildings in Bloemfontein - Enla Minnaar | Essay: Oscar Niemeyer, architect - Gus Gerneke | Essay: The man under the tree - Danie Theron | Review: Imagining mit: designing a campus for the 21st century - Noëleen Murray | End piece: Suburbia in retreat - Alan Lipman

ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA
May / June 2008

In this issue:
Editor’s Notes: Déjà Vu Unfinished Business | Notes and News : Changes to the Built Environment Professions – are they necessary?; Notes on the Corobrik SAIA Awards | Awards of Merit : Fourteen Awards of Merit; Prou Heritage Campus; central Building Restructuring – University of the Free State; Tolplan Offices, Lynwood, Pretoria, Willow Bridge Lifestyle Centre, Loft House, Farm House Trio – Mountain & Sea House. Noordhoek, Langham Cottage, Infanta, South Cape, Courtyards on Oxford | Essay: Sound Architecture | Review : Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies | End Piece : Absolute Hokum?