Date: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Time: 18:00 – 19:00
Venue: Online on MS Teams
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Cat 1, 0. 1 CPD Credits
In 2026, the GSA is inviting architectural and spatial practitioners to speak to our community about how they are transforming their practice ground, through recombination, collaboration, refusal or making anew. Rather than the customary presentation of completed buildings, this lecture series foregrounds adaptive practice models – contingent, responsive, and continuously redefined.
Each Practice Lecture offers a practitioner the opportunity to reflect together with the community on the constitution of their practice, and how its organisation, evolution, fluidity, collaboration, systems and networks form a Practice Ground – a way of conducting and sustaining spatial production. As part of our practice ground, these sessions are always online, in the evenings, to ensure the widest possible participation in this collective reimagination of architectural doing.
Martin Lardner-Burke is a Principal at dhk Architects Architects and Vice President of the GIfA Gauteng Institute for Architecture. Throughout his career, he has consistently delivered well-conceived and executed architectural solutions underpinned by his sound leadership, extensive knowledge, and meticulous attention to design detail.
The lecture is entitled “The Architecture of Practice”. It will focus on who dhk is as a studio, how they approach their work, how they have remained relevant as a large practice, and how, for nearly three decades, they have stayed true to their design-led ethos with designs that respect their social, functional and environmental context. Martin will also touch on what it means for a proudly South African business to be part of the 10N Collective, the global collective of experts in architecture, urbanism and related design disciplines.
https://www.dhk.co.za/