Thursday, July 24, 2014

The End of Excellence?

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(This Piece first appeared in  The Herald  on 25 July 2014 and is based on a talk I gave at the Athenaeum that week) I have never visited...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

UIA Conference - Durban 2014

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I have prepared a  paper  for the UIA Conference commencing 3 August 2014 in Durban. I post it here just in case anybody is reading it in th...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Time to knuckle down to work and have a braai

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(This column first appeared in the Weekend Post n 24 May 2014 I was planning to write this column on Workers Day, but I was too busy w...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Look after what we have got.

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( I wrote this Column for the 9 April 2014 edition of Port Elizabeth's daily newspaper, "THE HERALD") It was a windy,...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Of Simplicity and Beauty

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So, it’s Christmas Eve. If you are reading this you have probably survived the malls and the shopping chaos. You have probably spent more m...
Monday, October 14, 2013

All that is “building” is not “Architecture”

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This column first appeared in the The Port Elizabeth Herald on 14 October 2013. Last week Monday, 1 October, was “World Architectur...
Friday, September 20, 2013

The Three Headed City Monster

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(This piece first appeared in my column in the  Herald on 20 September 2013) My wife and I missed our evening walk on Tuesday. I d...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

We can all take green action

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(this column first Appeared in The Herald on 7 August 2013) I spent last Sunday afternoon strolling around the exhibits at the Homemake...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

How green is your building?

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 People often make vague references to how "green' their building is. The Green Building Council of South Africa has a very compr...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

Of Fear and Order

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(This Column first appeared in The Herald on 7 June 2013) Article in the Herald - 4 June 2013 For a Saturday morning, things were goi...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Freedom and the shape and form of South African cities

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Freedom is so complicated. There are so many difficult decisions to make all the time. Do I get Top TV with its new porn channels? ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Searching for the real thing

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This piece first appeared in The Herald on 10 April 2013. It was a particularly miserable Wednesday evening on Stanley Street. The ...
Friday, April 05, 2013

March 2013 Newsletter for the Easter Cape Institute of Architects

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Dear Colleagues, March 2013 newsletter I was watching with interest how the Easter Weekend rain washed away the "Splash Festi...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

February 3013 - Newsletter for the Eastern Cape Institute of Architects

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February 2013 Dear Colleagues, February has been a surprisingly positive month for our city. We have “close to capacity” crowds watc...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

January 2013 newsletter for the Eastern Cape Institute of Architects

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January 2013 Dear Colleagues , Welcome to the first Newsletter for the year from the Eastern Cape Institute of Architects . We wil...