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SWANEPOEL, Charles Bilson (Swanie)

Born: 1932 07 07
Died: 2004 03 10

Architect

SACA:
Reg No: 1764
Year registered: 1956

BArch 1955 (Pretoria)

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
COURSES TAUGHT
Design 110,120,210,220,310, 320, 500 Building Science 211,311,321 Building Services 211

STUDY LEADER AND EXAMINER
UNDER-GRADUATES:
Mentor for final year design students (yearly)

CAREER DEVELOPMENT COURSES ATTENDED
1992: MANAGEMENT, Paul du Toil

DEPARTMENTAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
1955-1965: Part time Lecturer, Dept of Architecture, University of Pretoria 1966-1967: Senior Lecturer, Dept of Architecture, University of Pretoria 1967: Senior Lecturer, Dept of Architecture, University of Pretoria

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

ON-GOING RESEARCH
A design approach to building services. Volume 1, Electrical installations, lighting, mechanical ventilation and air conditioning (for July/August 1995)

UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH
Schools planning: lighting, ventilation for prototype primary and agricultural high schools for the Transvaal Education Department and the Transvaal Provincial Administration.
Group teaching and the effects on school-design for the Transvaal Education Department and the Transvaal Provincial Administration.
Timber and prefabricated steel housing design.

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC LECTURES, ETC:
1984: Exhibition on presentation techniques in architectural practice. Perspectives done in the Vatican, Spain, Greece, Great Britain and Detroit, Michigan as well as locally.

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND CONTRACT RESEARCH
Industrial design of packaging, catalogues and products for (amongst others) - Josiah Parkes, Brownbuilt Metal Sections

COMMUNITY SERVICE RELATED TO ARCHITECTURAL PROFESSION
Sometime cartoonist for the Journal of the Institute of SA Architects in order to deflate the profession's occasional pomposity and self-importance.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Registered with the S A Council of Architects Member of the Institute of S A Architects Member of the Pretoria Architectural Association Member Building Services Association.

SERVICE ON COMMITTEES OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
1985 Alternate member: SACA Education Advisory board Member: SABS Committee on Building Accuracy Standards.

INVOLVEMENT IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
1955-1956: Employed by MEIRING & NAUDE
1956-1963: Employed by C. STRAUSS BRINK
1963-1964: Employed by BRIAN SANDROCK
1964-1967: Worked in association with VISSER DE RIDDER & LABUSCHAGNE
1967-1976: Partner in DE BEER & SWANEPOEL PARTNERSHIP.
1976-1991: Own practice
Since 1976: Architectural delineation practice (presentation and perspectives).

Swanie was one of the last great perspectivists and did presentations for many architectural firms.

Books citing SWANEPOEL

ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 97, 198

ISAA. 1969. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1968-1969 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1968-1969. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 101, 134