The Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg is delighted to invite you to attend our Summer Show 2023 opening on Friday, 24th November at 17:30. The exhibition will run from the 24th November until 1st December 2023.
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This year as we settle into our new home, we continue our work of developing architectural design research methodologies through the work of our nine units. The work advances sometimes with trepidation but always venturously, intentionally and lyrically. Through our teaching and learning we translate the complex conceptual manoeuvres required to negotiate the contested conditions and circumstances encountered in speculation on the past, present and future; of how me might apprehend architectural production and spatial practice in South Africa and the African diaspora through the lens of our constantly shifting interpretations of elusive architectures. Whether working in Jozi, Gabarone or Gorée, or through exploratory forays to Venice, to Ann Arbor or San Juan, our ranging preoccupations shift from notions of evolving ideologies – evolve – through action and motion – move – into the metaphoric and tangible space where we learn to translate. This year we sought to make sense of how imaginaries might be realised, we worked to translate thoughts into words, ideas into images, senses into space and transformative pedagogies into transformative practices.
GSA Summer Show 2023 – Translate
Date: 24 November 2023
Time: 17:30 – 21:00
Venue: GSA Home
JBS Park, 69 Kingsway Avenue
Auckland Park, Johannesburg