OPEN BUILDING IS FOR REAL: PREPARING STUDENTS FOR REAL – School Talk
Join us at the FADA UJ Auditorium on Thursday the 23rd April 13.00-14.00 for a talk by Prof Kendall:
Announcement of student selection to attend the ETH Future of Open Building Conference in Zurich, Switzerland
In March 2015, all GPA Unit 2 students were asked to write blogs on the relevance of open building and how it could be explored and applied in their own design thinking. These written pieces, [...]
The Future of Open Building Conference – 2015, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Unit 2 will be participating in THE FUTURE OF OPEN BUILDING conference at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, during September 9-11, 2015. The conference asks participants to critically consider the notion [...]
Cross Unit Exhibition – Quarter 1
The end of Quarter 1 was celebrated by the first Cross Unit Exhibition, where all units exhibited and presented their work to the public. Convened by Randy Bird, each unit Coordinator [...]
UJ UNIT 2 – ASSIGNMENT 3: MULTI-LAYERED, MIXED NEIGHBOURHOODS IN NEWTOWN, JHB – Summary
“When is urban design architecture? When is architecture urban design?” Tariq Toffa . Click HERE to see the Unit 2_A3_Neighborhood Immersion – Brief Newtown is a potentially unique [...]
UJ UNIT 2 – ASSIGNMENT 4 : INTRODUCTION TO STUDIO AT DENVER – Brief
UJ UNIT 2 INTRODUCTION TO STUDIO AT DENVER DESKTOP ANALYSIS, DOCUMENTATION & COMPILATION OF EXISTING DATA The projects carried out in Quarter 1 have introduced the students to various [...]
UJ UNIT 2 – ASSIGNMENT 2: PEOPLE, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE – Summary
“With its infrastructures, services, and local systems of power, the urban level works as a relay station between the far order and everyday life. Urban space under capitalism thus has a double [...]
Liz Ogbu shares her work with Unit 2
UJ Unit 2 recently hosted Liz Ogbu, a globally recognized designer, urbanist, and social innovator based in San Francisco to present at the University of Johannesburg Liz is an [...]
UJ UNIT 2 – ASSIGNMENT 3: MULTI-LAYERED, MIXED NEIGHBOURHOODS IN NEWTOWN, JHB – Brief
EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE: MULTI-LAYERED, MIXED NEIGHBOURHOODS IN NEWTOWN, JOHANNESBURG “When is urban design architecture? When is architecture urban design?” Tariq Toffa [...]
UJ UNIT 2 – ASSIGNMENT 2: PEOPLE, SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE – Brief
Welcome to the second week of UJ_UNIT2 and the second assignment where we ask you to investigate the relationship between people, systems and infrastructure at neighbourhood level. Find the [...]
