The South African Institute of Architects

PUBLICATIONS The SAIA aims to promote and maintain opportunities for the interchange and recording of knowledge and experience of architecture.

	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?

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA March/April 2008 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Notes : Alternative Method \| Notes and News : ArchAfrica 2008 Mini Conference, Awards of Merit \| Theme: Organic Architecture : Architecture as Parallel Landscape – Two Award-Winning Houses; Highveld places – Two Buildings by Heinrich Kammeyer; Playful Resourcefulness: Kate Otten’s Working Method; Outsider Architecture – Where Amateurs Blossom; Hoogwaterhuis 1969-77 \| Prized House : Disappearing Act \| Urban Design : Govan Mbeki Avenue – Port Elizabeth Strategic Development \| Competition : Woza Africa – The Pan African Parliament Competition \| Refereed Article : In Between the Curriculum \| Essay: Into Dust \| Review : Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities \| End Piece : Roland Terry – American Organic Regionalist

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA January/February 2008 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Notes : Durban – Multiple Reading \| Notes and News : SA and Exposure in The Rest of The World, Obituary : Eyvind Niels Finsen \| Theme: Durban : Durban, Oh Durban – The Cities Within; Durban – An African City on The Indian Ocean; Intuitive Process(es) Towards Responsive Architecture; A Study of Durban’s Backyard; Shembe Settlement; Buckminster Fuller and The Indlu Geodesic Dome Project, Durban, 1958; Paradigm Lost; Durban – City on The Margin; John Pillay: Temple Sculpture \| Essay : The Banana Boys \| Book Review : ‘Understanding Sustainable Architecture’ \| End Piece : Alienated Architectures

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA November/December 2007 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Gemstones \| Notes and News : Bloemfontein in August: a time for reflection \| The Sophia gray Memorial Lecture : The Expedient and The Ethical, The Everyday and The Extraordinary \| Project Awards : Architecture and Urban design \| Essay : Painting Emptiness \| Review : Research ruminations at the Royal Institute of British Architects \| Obituary : Mannie Feldman \| End Piece : Detroit points the way?

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA September/October 2007 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Good and Bad Signs \| Notes and News : Sustainability – are we doing our bit? \| New City Buildings : Two Durban Banks: Standard Bank KZN Office and ABSA KZN Regional Offices; Architects’ Office, open to excellent prospects; Fashion Building, St Lorient Building, Brooklyn \| Three Apartment Buildings : Canterbury Square; The Lighthouse; The Edge \| House : a time for critical reflection? Bokaap, Cape Town House’s on Ella Street \| Article : The State of Courtyard Housing – a review of a symposium in Riyadh \| Essay: Yesterday’s Road \| Reminiscence : The 30s: A Reminiscence \| Book Review : The Architectural review: Special Edition – South Africa, June 2007 \| End Piece : jokes, japes and other architectural tomfoolery

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA July/August 2007 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Developmental State – People’s Home \| Notes and News : A new page…of opportunities \| Student Congress : In Between \| Houses : Uses of indigenous knowledge – reflections on land art; Split personality: House Moncrieff \| Daimlerchrysler Award finalists : Heather Dodd: Linden House; Chris Wilkinson: House Rosa; Archilab: Refining the house; Informal House \| Research : The form of the migrant labour hostel \| Article : Thunolle: Swedish Social Architect \| New Buildings : Architecture of empowerment and necessity; The good architect is a mad Masai scientist \| Opinion : A watching world \| Book Review : Roelof Utenbogaardt: Senza Tempo / Timeless \| End Piece : Learning and boozing abroad

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA May/June 2007 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : To Separate or To Connect \| Notes and News \| Profile : Luigi Snozzi – An Architect in Search of Place \| Security : Defensive Architecture in South Africa: The Story Behind the Walls and Gates; Fortress South Africa: A Photo Essay \| DaimlerChrysler Awards : Heinrich Wolff – Inkwenkwezi School; Thorsten Deckler – Three Projects; Henning Rasmuss – A House and a Project \| Obituary : Dennis Radford \| Research : ‘Florenti Fama Atque Opibus Africae Meridionalis Civitati’: Herbert Baker and The South Africa House Interiors \| Opinion : Whited Sepulchres \| Book Review : Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City \| End Piece : Embattled Theory – A Report from the 20th Century.

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA March/April 2007 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Questions of Conservation \| Notes and News \| Article : La Biennale Di Venezia 10 \| Theme: Heritage : Issues and Challenges in South African Material Landscapes; ‘Know what you have to do, and do it’: The need for Conservation Education; Working with Inconsistencies and Discontinuities: The Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum; Nelson Mandela Centre for Excellence; Getting to the Point; Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage at Risk; The Emergence of Modern Architecture; Conservation and Development: The case of District Six; Lessons in ‘Spatialising’ Heritage: The conservation work of Lina Bo Bardi \| Opinion : The Shimmering \| Book Review : The Edifice Complex by Deyan Sudjic \| End Piece : Architecture at a Loss? Advertisement: Architecture South Africa Editorial Advisory Committee.

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA January/February 2007 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Talk, Show and Debate \| Notes and News : Awards and Innovation \| Theory : From Doing to Being: Cultural Buildings and the City in the Conceptual Age, or why icons are so yesterday \| Sophia Gray Lecture : Borrowing Space and Time: Contributing to the Reconception of Modern African Space; An Invitation to Debate; Response; Beach House, Plettenberg Bay \| New Buildings : Icon. Symbol. Glue: Link Building, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town; Simply in Place; EPA’s new Studio Building; Veranda Houses through 30 Years; Modernisms: Two False Bay Houses; The One-Megabyte House \| Refereed Article : The Congress as Architecture: Modernism and Politics in Post-War Transvaal.

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA November/December 2006 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Small Widens the View \| Notes and News : New President : Hassan Asmal \| Theme : Small Public Buildings : Introduction: A Model in Säynätsalo; Small Community Buildings in Durban; Information Centre and Entrance Kiosk, Boulders Beach; Retreat Railway Police Station; Niewoudtville Caravan Site Upgrade; Government-Driven Community Centres: Laingsburg Community Centre; New Church for The Blessed Sacrament Parish \| Article : Mata-Mata,Urikaruus, Kieliekrankie…Regional Responses to Context and Function \| Opinion : Talking trees \| Book Review : Mediterranean Gardening, a Waterwise Approach \| End Piece : Johannesburg: A World-Class City?

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA September/October 2006 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : The Awards \| Notes and News : Reviewing a Review; my term in the hot seat \| Theme: SAIA Awards : Awards of Merit; Awards for Excellence \| Selected Awards of Merit : The Vineyard Hotel; Mapungubwe National Park; House Fowler; House Nicola and Knight \| Opinion : Knee World \| Book Review : Roof Cooling Techniques : A Design Handbook \| End piece : Architectural Gems in Yemen.

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA July/August 2006 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Dying and Living \| In Memoriam : Obituary – Ike Horvitch \| Essay : Beyond the Cult of the Compelling Object \| Glen Gallagher – A Retrospective : Citation; Address; Thoughts on Gallagher’s Work \| Obituaries : Jan van Wijk and Willie Meyer \| Theme: Technical Exploration : Stratford’s Guesthouse; The Edge of the Roof; Let Architecture be free \| House : Fynbos House : Between Landscape and Architecture \| Opinion : A Place for Stones \| Book Review : Johannesburg, the Elusive Metropolis \| End Piece : Modernism at the V&A.

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA May/June 2006 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : The Future out of the Past \| Notes and News : 1930’s Drawings : Cartoon \| Theme : Museums : Imaging Humankind; Museum of Struggle, Red Location, Port Elizabeth; Vukani Museum, KZN; Invisible Architecture – Sans Souci Cinema, Kliptown Soweto \| Refereed Article : Roots, Forms and Relevance of Indigenous Settlements in Southern Africa \| House : House Steyn/Kunz, Mooikloof, Pretoria \| Opinion : Flying Low \| Book Review : Contemporary South African Architecture in a Landscape of Transition \| End Piece : Curitiba, Brazil – A Model for Development?

	ARCHITECTURE SOUTH AFRICA March/April 2006 IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note : Joining the World \| Notes and News : President’s Note \| Regional Awards : Awards in Port Elizabeth; Singita Lebombo, Kruger Park; Umkhumbane Community Health Centre; UFS Student Centre; The Sheltering Sky: Beau Constance House \| Project Awards : Project Awards \| Tribute : Gabriel Fagan : An Appreciation, Propriety and Syntax; Some Reflections on Gawie Fagan’s work; Two Book Reviews \| Opinion : People were living there \| End Piece : Thoughts from Heritage Day.