The AZA16 festival brings together leading local and international professionals - Book Early

Title: AZA2016 Updates

The AZA16 festival brings together leading local and international professionals. Workshops, seminars and exhibitions provide opportunity for multi-disciplinary delegates to network and learn. Keynote speakers will include experts from both South Africa and abroad, such as Stanley Saitowitz, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California in Berkeley, and Baerbel Mueller from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Saitowitz will explore the topic of ‘building the city’ – an ancient process which has been in progress for millennia. He will demonstrate how each contributing part in architecture should add to the whole of a city, taking its surroundings into account.

“The AZA16 theme, ‘SCALE’, will explore ratio and proportion in design,” says Daniel van der Merwe, past President of the Gauteng Institute for Architecture (GIfA) and architect at PPC. “The conference will examine how architects and other designers work with both ‘bigness’ and ‘smallness’ across disciplines. We will show how architects can work across all manners of different scales, incorporating both micro and macro scale into design. The Wits Johannesburg campus, as the venue, allows for a fantastic array of SCALE elements to be incorporated into the programme,” he adds.

Stanley Saitowitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Witwatersrand in 1974 and his Masters in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and has taught... read more

Yondela Silimela is the Executive Director of the Development Planning Department in the City of Johannesburg. Prior to returning to the City in 2012, she worked with the Public Investment Corporation in the Property Investment Division. Her career spans in excess of 15 years in the... read more

Baerbel Meuller is an architect and founder of nav_s baerbel mueller (navigations in the field of architecture and urban research within diverse cultural contexts), which has focused on projects located in Ghana and the DRC since 2002. She is head of the [applied] Foreign Affairs lab at the Institute of Architecture, University of... read more

Nabeel Essa is the principal of the award winning practice office 24-7.He graduated from WITS with a Bachelor of Architecture degree with distinction and a Masters in Landscape Urbanism from the AA. His practice applies unique skills in combining spatial understanding with new ways of re- interpreting heritage and... read more

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