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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, [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

Dear Friends; So far, I’m thoroughly impressed with the direction UNIT 2 is taking and look forward to working with everyone in April even if only for a few weeks. Embedding architecture [...]

FIND THE UNIT 2 INTRODUCTION PRESENTATION: unit 2 introduction 022015_reduced Dear Class of 2015 We welcome you to FADA-UJ. The UNIT SYSTEM was introduced in 2014 and will be launched on Monday [...]

ARCHITECTURE + AGENCY : DESIGN | MAKE | TRANSFORM (Osman, Bennett, Toffa) Unit 2 is based on the understanding that the Built Environment emerges over time and is in a constant state of [...]

“Can we tell you how excited we are at UJ to be offering, for the first time on the African continent, the world-famous Unit System way of teaching? Yes, we can! Following in the footsteps [...]

SAPI Planning Africa 2014: Making Great Places; There is a need for Architects, Planners, Transport and Civil Engineers to jointly confront the urgent need to set the SA built environment on a [...]