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Timeline: Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria_____________________________________________________ | |
| Author: | BOTES, Nico |
| In: | Artefacts |
| Date: | 2011 |
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(Please note that this is a work in progress, if you have any additional information please contact us)
| 1908 |
On 11 February 1908 the first students register for classes at Kya Rosa, Skinner Street, at the Pretoria Centre of the Transvaalse Universiteitskollege (TUK), initially as subjugate to the University of the Cape of Good Hope (UP 1960a:11-18)
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| 1910 |
The TUK promulgated according to the 'Transvaalse Universiteits-Inlijvingswet, 1910' in the gazette of the Transvaal government on 17 May 1910 (UP 1960a:23-24), now one of eight colleges under the flagship of the University of the Cape of Good Hope (UP 1960a:25)
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| 1911 |
During September 1911 classes are moved to two newly completed buildings in Brooklyn (now Old Arts and Old Chemistry buildings) (UP 1960a:27)
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| 1927 |
Promulgation of The Architects and Quantity Surveyors Act No 18 of 1927 (Fisher 1998:126)
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| 1929 |
Prof H BELL-JOHN is Head of Department 5 March 1929: Memorandum by Dr SFN Gie (Secretary for Education) to motivate that the training of architects and quantity surveyors should be a function of a university (and not a technical college). Subsequently, the two courses were moved to the TUK with the understanding that training would take place in collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand, but offered on both campuses (UP 1960a:142) 18 April 1929: Courses in architecture and quantity surveying initiated at TUK with the appointment of H BELL-JOHN as head and part-time professor (UP 1960a:142) _______________________________ |
| 1930 |
10 October 1930: An act of Parliament – championed by General Jan Smuts – gave rise to the name TUC becoming the University of Pretoria. At the time the University had more than 900 students, making it the largest tertiary institution in the country at the time (Artefacts) The department is housed in the Student Union Clubhouse (Klubsaal); architect Gerard MOERDYK. The first level was completed in 1930 and the second level only in 1936 (Artefacts) _______________________________ |
| 1931 |
First course in architecture starts at UP (UP 1987:67) Negotiations between the University of Pretoria, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the board of the Institute of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, leading to the decision at the end of that year that, from 1932, Pretoria would offer the quantity surveying degrees and Wits those in architecture (UP 1960a:142-143) _______________________________ |
| 1933 |
First five (part-time) lecturers in quantity surveying appointed (UP 1960a:143) December 1933: First BSc(QS) degree awarded to TH LOUW (UP 1960a:143) _______________________________ |
| 1935 |
18 October 1935: Architect Gerard Leendert Pieter MOERDYK (also Moerdijk) assumes chairmanship of the Council of the University of Pretoria (until 1942-06-25) (Steenkamp 2003:3)
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| 1936 |
First floor of the Student Union Clubhouse (Klubsaal) completed (see 1930). Boukunde, a reading room and student accommodation shared the building with a tearoom and the Student Representative Council (UP 1960a:292)
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| 1938 |
TH LOUW appointed as part-time lecturer in quantity surveying (UP 1960a:143)
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| 1939 |
Gerard Leendert Pieter MOERDYK awarded honorary Master's Degree from UP (Artefacts)
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| 1940 |
Because of WWII, the UP Council decides to continue honouring the agreement with Wits, despite a strong desire to have its own chair in architecture (UP 1960a:143)
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| 1942 |
28 May 1942: The UP Council decides to end the agreement with Wits in order to present the courses in architecture themselves (UP 1960a:143) Prof BELL-JOHN passes away on 24 December 1942 (UP 1960a:142) _______________________________ |
| 1943 |
Department of Architecture and Quantity Surveying formally founded in the Faculty of Science (Fakulteit Wis- en Natuurkunde) (UP 1960a:143) 1 March 1943: Prof AL (At) MEIRING, a practicing architect, appointed as first fulltime professor and Head, with TH LOUW as Head of the division for Quantity Surveying (UP 1960a:143) HWE STAUCH joins the staff of the Department (Steenkamp 2003:4) Department housed in Buitemuurse Gebou, 239 Vermeulen Street, Pretoria (Steenkamp 2003:3) _______________________________ |
| 1946 |
[approx. 1946] Robert Edward COLE BOWEN appointed as senior lecturer in the Department (Steenkamp 2003:5)
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| 1948 |
Hellmut STAUCH leaves the Department, but still visited regularly for design discussions (Steenkamp 2003:4)
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| 1949 |
Sixth annual exhibition of student work and prize giving ceremony held at the Department. First finalists graduate in architecture, namely BOSMAN, DE RIDDER, EKSTEEN, MEYER, MONNIG, MAARTENS, VAN WIJK and ZIKMANN (Meiring 1949:239-242). Mention is made of students in years one to five.
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| 1952 |
Basil SOUTH (lecturer) passes away. Date of his appointment to the Department uncertain (Steenkamp 2003:5)
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| 1953 |
COLE BOWEN leaves the Department, but still visited regularly for design discussions (Steenkamp 2003:5)
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| 1955 |
Department housed in Kerry Building (UP 1960a:283). The Kerry Building was north of Vermeulen Street, opposite the Noordvaal arcade (APB)
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| 1956 |
AP BURGER graduates with BArch degree (UP 1987:69); PR (Roelf) BOTHA graduates with BArch degree (UP 1987:68)
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| 1957 |
Department housed in New Engineering Building (now Engineering II) (UP 1960a:283)
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| 1958 |
William Gordon McINTOSH awarded honorary Master's Degree (Architecture) from UP (Artefacts) Department housed in Klubsaal (UP 1960a:283). The first year studio was still accommodated in the Engineering Building (HW) _______________________________ |
| 1959 |
AP BURGER appointed as fulltime lecturer (UP 1987:69) PR BOTHA graduates with MSc(LandArch) degree from University of California, Berkeley (UP 1987:68) Department housed in Boukunde (first double storey curtain wall structure) _______________________________ |
| 1960 |
PR BOTHA appointed as part-time lecturer (UP 1987:68) First curtain wall Boukunde building completed (UP 1960a:98) for 182 students at a cost of £61,500 (UP 1960a:283); Architects: Prof AL MEIRING and permanent staff of the Department (Meiring 1961) First Master's degree by research in Architecture (MArg) awarded to BAT (Brian) SANDROCK for study 'Architectural Education with special reference to the University of Pretoria' (UP 1960b:5) Five year degree course (BArg) and part-time, five year diploma course (DipArg) already in existence (UP 1987:68) _______________________________ |
| 1961 |
The BArch course is extended to six years following a request from the ISAA in 1958. The part-time diploma is cancelled and replaced by an eight year part-time degree course (UP 1987:68)
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| 1962 |
AP BURGER re-appointed as part-time lecturer when he joined the practice of Brian SANDROCK (UP 1987:69) May 1962: Institute of Landscape Architects of South Africa (ILASA) founded by Joane PIM, Ann SUTTON, Peter LEUTSCHER and Roelf BOTHA (Breedlove & Young 2002:2) _______________________________ |
| 1966 |
The eight year part-time degree course is cancelled with the proviso that enrolled students will be able to complete their studies (UP 1987:68)
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| 1967 |
1 June 1966: AP (Alewyn) BURGER nominated and appointed to the chair for architecture and Head of the Department (UP 1987:69)
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| 1969 |
Three third year students in architecture (Siegfried SCHMIDT, Hennie GRAPHORN & Dirk GREEF) win the Japan Architect international competition for the design of a university town (UP 1987:69; Perdeby 1969:1)
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| 1971 |
1 January 1971: PR (Roelf) BOTHA appointed to the new chair in Landscape Architecture (UP 1987:68) Name changes to Department of Architecture (UP 1987:67) Eight students enrol for the new four year degree in Landscape Architecture (BL) and one student for the postgraduate degree, namely BA (Ben) FARRELL, later professor, who obtained his ML in 1974 (UP 1987:68) New three year degree BSc(Boukunde) presented for the first time (UP 1987:68) CCC (Clyde) MEINTJES joins staff of Department of Architecture in July 1971 _______________________________ |
| 1972 |
During the winter of 1972 the construction work on Boukunde caused considerable disruptions. Studios of third and fourth year students were temporarily relocated to a shed on a farm near the current Ifafi (east of Hartbeespoort Dam) owned by Lincoln Schoeman; students and lecturers (amongst them Dieter HOLM and Carl (Gus) GERNEKE) were transported there daily by bus. One of the projects undertaken there included the redesign of the farm as a suburb, a project later completed by Prof Charles Viljoen (not affiliated to the Department), who also presented lectures here (DH) 16 lecturers in total for architecture, quantity surveying and building management (UP 1987:69) _______________________________ |
| 1973 |
In September 1973 ILASA hosts environmental congress in Pretoria: "Planning for Environmental Conservation" with prominent speakers including John Oldham, Hans F Werkmeister, Roberto BURLE-MARX and Ian McHARG. The conference was instrumental in bringing environmental issues to the attention of the public and government and would later have a huge influence on the Environmental Conservation Act (Breedlove & Young 2002:2-3) Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria implements a punch-card system to index and retrieve information from architectural journals that would evolve into TOBi (Trefwoordestelsel vir die Ontsluiting van Boukundige inligting / Keyword System for the Retrieval of Architecture and Building Science Information) under lecturer Hans WEGELIN. Articles from 93 international and South African journals were indexed over the years to enable users to access information on architects, buildings, building materials and methods, design theory, urban design, and much more (KvN; Maritz 2003:24-25) The student organisation Boukundige Studentevereniging splits into three separate organisations, leading to the founding of the Argitektuurstudentevereniging, Boubestuurstudentevereniging and Bourekenkundestudentevereniging. GAP (Groep Argitekte Pretoria) already exists and is affiliated with the ISAA (UP 1987:321) Additions to Boukunde building completed (eastern and western wings and third floor) (UP 1987:69) _______________________________ |
| 1974 |
BArch course shortened from six to five years as the requirement for practice experience falls away; instead, students are required to work in practices during recesses (UP 1987:69; this source erroneously states that the course was shortened to four years; according to APB, HoD at the time, it should be five years)
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| 1975 |
Dr Anton Rupert (Rembrandt Group) approaches Landscape Architecture at UP to complete a masterplan for Graaff-Reinet. Project was completed by W VAN RIET assisted by G Minnaar (architecture student) and in collaboration with staff from the Departments of Architecture and Town and Regional Planning (Breedlove & Young 2002:4)
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| 1981 |
The TOBi punch-card system (see 1973) converted by Prof Hans WEGELIN and Mike Pinto of Target Computing Systems into a DOS-database (also see 1996) (KvN)
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| 1982 |
A total of 16 staff members for just the Department of Architecture, including Prof Alewyn BURGER, Prof Roelf BOTHA and Dieter HOLM as associate professor (UP 1987:69)
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| 1983 |
University switches to semester system at the beginning of 1983 (Kemp 1991:23) Concern for urban context start to manifest in thesis projects; this is marked by the BArch project by Martin KRUGER (Diagonaalstraat, 1983) (Le Roux 1994:17-18) _______________________________ |
| 1984 |
Prof AP BURGER resigns (Kemp 1991:23) CCC (Clyde) MEINTJES joins staff of Department of Landscape Architecture (Artefacts), but continues to teach Building Science to architecture students (NB) _______________________________ |
| 1985 |
Dieter HOLM, later Prof, awarded first PhD in architecture from UP (UP 2002a:194) Marnus BARNARD (BArch 1987) wins national Murray & Roberts-Des Baker Architecture Student's Competition (MB) Two members of staff leave architecture (Kemp 1991:23) _______________________________ |
| 1986 |
Prof Dieter HOLM becomes Head of Department (UP 1996:202) Six new members of staff join architecture (Kemp 1991:23) _______________________________ |
| 1987 |
The Department of Landscape Architecture becomes an independent entity under the headship of Prof Michael MURPHY (UP 1996:224) Design Theory is introduced as a separate subject stream and presented to first year students for the first time (Fisher & Le Roux 1993:24) BArch course contents extended and reorganised (including new module of Design Theory). Prerequisites for promotion and graduating with distinction are set higher. Theory of Structures from now on presented to separate groups, especially architecture students, where it was previously presented to three programmes simultaneously: architecture, quantity surveying and construction management. Civil Engineering takes responsibility for Structures for the first time. Supplementary examinations (except for first semester of first year) are discontinued (Kemp 1991:23) BSc(Boukunde) degree discontinued due to lack of postgraduate possibilities and diminishing interest (Kemp 1991:23) Johan (Joe) KEMP promoted to associate professor (UP 1996:202) _______________________________ |
| 1988 |
Willem VAN RIET appointed as Professor and Head of Department of Landscape Architecture on 1 January 1988 (Van Riet 1989:1) Prof Willem VAN RIET receives the first doctoral degree from the Department of Landscape Architecture (Van Riet 1989:1). Rest of the staff consists of BA FARRELL (associate Professor), 3 senior lecturers (CCC MEINTJES, K FOURIE and Graham YOUNG) and two research officers (JD Janse van Rensburg and S Slabbert) (UP 1996:225) _______________________________ |
| 1990 |
4 October 1990: Approval obtained for UP to take over the campus of the Division for Energy Technology (DET) (previously Brandstofnavorsingsinstituut) south of Lynnwood Road. It would become known as South Campus (UP 1996:501)
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| 1991 |
Gawie FAGAN (BArch 1952) 3rd Sophia Gray Laureate; presents Sophia Grey Memorial Lecture 'Architect and community' and Exhibition (Artefacts) Establishment of the GIS laboratory for the Department of Landscape Architecture under Prof Willem VAN RIET (UP 1996:224; Breedlove & Young 2002:4) Department of Landscape Architecture moves to South Campus (UP 1996:224) _______________________________ |
| 1992 |
Division for Environmental Design and Management established (UP 2002a:192) 11 permanent full-time staff members, of which 4 had doctoral and 6 master’s degrees (UP 1996:202) Other staff consisted of 1 permanent part-time and 6 part-time lecturers, two lecturers from other departments and 2 specialists from outside UP. _______________________________ |
| 1993 |
Department of Architecture celebrates Golden Jubilee (UP 2002a:192) with four events:
Marianne DE KLERK (BArch 1995 and MSArchS & MCP (MIT) 2001) wins the second prize in the William Van Allen International Student Design Competition with the project 'A Channel Crossing the Nile' submitted for the competition to design a bridge for the Nile River at Luxor/ Thebes in Egypt (MdK) _______________________________ |
| 1994 |
Division for Environmental Design and Management gains official status when the Senate approves a regulation in this regard. Prof HM SIGLÉ (Head of Department of Quantity Surveying) designated as first director of the division (UP 2002a:192) Special edition of Architecture SA (January + February 1994) devoted to the Department’s golden jubilee – see 1993. "Directly after the establishment of the first full South African Democracy, a representative of the department, Roger FISHER, was granted observer status at the 14th General Assembly of the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA) held in Mauritius in April 1994. While in progress, news came through of South Africa's re-admission to the Commonwealth and arrangements were immediately made for the international accreditation of the professional degree course in Architecture. A joint visit of the South African Council of Architects (SACA) and CAA was arranged for September of that year and so the Pretoria School of Architecture was the first school in South Africa under the new political dispensation to achieve international recognition, and in terms of an agreement negotiated by SACA with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), was also accredited by RIBA in 1995." (UP 2002a:193) Environmental Potential Atlas (ENPAT) project initiated from the GIS-lab in the Department of Landscape Architecture (see 1991). Contract research for The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) worth R1 million annually starts (Breedlove & Young 2002:4) Fourth year landscape architecture students design three parks in Atteridgeville as community participation project. City Council was persuaded to implement the parks (Urban Green File Supplement 2002:13) UP changes language policy to dual medium instruction with Afrikaans and English (Wegelin 2005:91) Braam DE VILLIERS (BArch 1994) becomes the first UP student to win the Corobrik National Architectural Student of the Year 1994 award (and R10,000; announced March 1995) with his thesis project 'A city market for Bosman Street Station' (Architect & Builder 1995:25) _______________________________ |
| 1995 |
Fourth year architecture student Joe DE VILLIERS (BArch 1996) wins National Panasonic Aeromatic Prize (and a trip to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong) for his design of an office building with optimal ventilation (NEWS)
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| 1996 |
The TOBi DOS-database, adapted from the punch-card system (see 1973, 1981) is adapted for a Windows-environment under Prof Hans WEGELIN. At the same time TOPi (Trefwoordstelsel vir die Ontsluiting van Plan-inligting / Keyword System for the Retrieval of Plan Information) and TOSi (Trefwoordstelsel vir die Ontsluiting van Skyfie-inligting / Keyword System for the Retrieval of Slide Information) is initiated (KvN) Prof SW (Schalk) LE ROUX is Head of Department Prof Willem VAN RIET and CCC (Clyde) MEINTJES retire from Department of Landscape Architecture (Artefacts) _______________________________ |
| 1997 |
The newly named Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture combines the previously separate Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture with Prof Schalk LE ROUX as Head (UP 2002a:192) Daniel IRURAH awarded PhD in architecture (UP 2002a:194) Gwen BREEDLOVE takes over ENPAT project (see 1991, 1994) and continues the contract research for The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (UP 2002a:194) Prof D HOLM appointed as Head of the newly established division for Research and Postgraduate Studies (UP 2002a:193) _______________________________ |
| 1998 |
Publication of Festschrift: Architecture of the Transvaal edited by Roger FISHER and Schalk LE ROUX with Estelle Maré (see Fisher, le Roux & Maré 1998) First Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa in Architecture by UP awarded to Amancio (Pancho) GUEDES (UP 2002a:194) Visiting academics: Prof Ali Cheikhrouhou (Tunis, Tunisia), Prof Han Verschure (Louvain, the Netherlands), Prof Ed Fyfe (Toronto, Canada) (UP 2002a:194) _______________________________ |
| 1999 |
Federation of Interior Architects and Designers (IFI) and Design South Africa (DSA) accreditation for Bachelor of Interior Design (BInt) programme (Reynders 1999; UP 2002a:193) New three year undergraduate and two year professional postgraduate degrees in architecture and landscape architecture introduced; first enrolments on undergraduate level (UP 2002a:194) Programme in Interior Design transferred to the Department of Architecture (UP 2002a:194) Three third year architecture students, Almer DU PISANIE (BArch 2001), Emilio EFTYCHIS (BArch 2001) and Beyers SLABBERT (BArch 2001) win national Murray & Roberts-Des Baker Architecture Student's Competition (NEWS) Michael MURPHY (visiting Professor from Texas A&M) awarded PhD in Landscape Architecture (UP 2002a:194) Visiting academics: Prof Fritz van Voorden (Delft, the Netherlands), Prof Julius Fabos (Los Angeles, USA) (UP 2002a:194) _______________________________ |
| 2000 |
New faculty structure implemented on 1 January 20000; Division for Environmental Design and Management renamed to School for the Built Environment within the Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology (UP 2002a:193) Henri COMRIE (BArch 1991) (lecturer) wins first prize in Plascon 2000 Colour Awards for Corporate Interior and Exteriors, while student Rudolph VAN DER MEULEN (BSc(Arch) 2002) wins student category and a trip to London's 100% Design (NEWS) Visiting academics: Prof Oscar Tenreiro (Caracas, Venezuela), Prof Glen Thomas (Brisbane, Australia) (UP 2002a:194) It was agreed to confer the first honorary doctorate in Landscape Architecture by UP on the internationally renowned ecologist and designer, Prof Ian McHarg, who unfortunately passed away before the degree could be conferred (Artefacts) Gabriël Theron (Gawie) FAGAN (BArch 1952) awarded the TuksAlumni Board's Laureate Award (TuksAlumni) _______________________________ |
| 2001 |
Programme in Landscape Architecture celebrates 30th anniversary (see 2002) First cohort of BSc(Arch) and BSc(LArch) students complete studies to graduate in Autumn 2002 (see 2002). One day workshop for Grade 11 learners from LG Holele High School (Ga-Rankuwa) and Eersterust Secondary School (Eersterust) hosted by Department in conjunction with PIA; organised by Finzi SAIDI and senior students (EBIT-brief 2001:18) National Architectural Student's Congress (themed CauseWay) hosted by UP, Technikon Pretoria and Technikon North Gauteng in Pretoria; organised by UP student Trevor LOVELL (BSc(Arch) 2002), it was held from 1 to 5 October 2001 (EBIT-brief 2001:21) Academic Information Service (library) establishes access to TOBi (see 1973, 1981, 1996) and it is renamed ArchUP (Maritz 2003:25) Third year architecture student Minette STEYN (BSc(Arch) 2001) wins the first prize in the design competition of the South African Institute for Steel Construction with her design for a tensile structure titled 'Inspiring Flight' (NEWS) Fourth year architecture student Michael DENNET (MArch(Prof) 2002) wins competition for the design of a kiosk sponsored by the Gauteng Provincial Government aimed at local conditions and job creation (NEWS) Jaco BOOYENS (BArch 1996) is first UP graduate to be awarded the prestigious SAIA bi-annual Rome scholarship to study at the British School in Rome. The two other finalists were also UP graduates: Carla DE BEER (BArch 1999) and Eugene DA SILVA-MOREIRA (BArch 1999) (NEWS) Dr Hentie LOUW (BArch 1971) 13th Sophia Gray Laureate; presents Sophia Grey Memorial Lecture 'Architecture and craft: a working relationship?' and Exhibition (NEWS) Architecture student Beverley LANIEWSKI (BArch 2002) awarded the Medhat Dorra Prize for students from Africa in an international competition presented by the International Union of Architects and supported by UNESCO (NEWS) Second year architecture student Geraldine HEYNS (BSc(Arch) 2002) wins student category in the annual Plascon Colour Competition with her entry 'Anamorphoses' (NEWS) _______________________________ |
| 2002 |
First BSc(Arch) and BSc(LArch) degrees awarded to finalists who completed their undergraduate studies at the end of the 2001 academic year (UP 2002b:4-5) First MArch(Prof), ML(Prof) and MInt(Prof) enrolments (at this stage a two year degree, although the option of a stand alone honours year was available) Programme in Landscape Architecture celebrates 30th anniversary with:
Christiaan VAN NIEKERK (BArch 2002) wins Corobrik National Architectural Student of the Year 2002 award (announced March 2003) with his thesis project ‘Extraneousness’ (Leading Architecture 2003:10) Thabo MUNYAI (BSc(LArch) 2002) becomes first black South African undergraduate student to be awarded degree in landscape architecture (awarded Autumn Graduation Ceremony 2003) (Pretoria News 10 March 2003:6) Prof Schalk W. LE ROUX (HoD) awarded Medal of Honour by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Arts) on 26 September 2002 for his contribution to the promotion of architecture (SAAWK 2002:7) Prof Thys SIGLÉ retires from UP as Chairman of the School for the Built Environment (NEWS) Library tests electronic thesis and dissertation repository with the BInt thesis of Raymund KÖNIGK (BInt 2002) entitled 'Claim use adapt' (HG) _______________________________ |
| 2003 |
Department first deposits M_(Prof) dissertations electronically on the UP Electronic Theses and Dissertations repository (http://upetd.up.ac.za/UPeTD.htm) Raymund KÖNIGK (BInt 2002) wins the inaugural Elle Decoration Solve Young Designer Competition (Solve Sit Sleep) and an internship at Conran & Partners, London, with his design for a sleeper couch, manufactured and sold at Loads of Living (NB) Tenth anniversary of the Interior programme; celebrated with the 10UP Young Designer Installation at Rooms on View showcasing product design prototypes and installations by students in the Programmes in Interior Architecture, University of Pretoria (20-25 May 2003, Sandton Convention Centre). Curator: Nico BOTES; Exhibitors: Anneke DEARLOVE (BInt 2002), Anika GROBLER (BHome Econ(Int) 1998), Catherine LEMMER (now KARUSSEIT) (BHome Econ(Int) 1999), Raymund KÖNIGK (BInt 2002), Chereen O'MAHONY (BSc(Int) 2002). Luminaire prototypes by Coenraad MARITZ (BInt 2002), Chereen O'MAHONY (BSc(Int) 2002), Tredeaux GROBLER (BSc(Int) 2002, Evelyn SIMPSON (BSc(Int) 2002, Joleen ELS (BInt 2002) (UP 2003a) Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa in Landscape Architecture awarded to Peter WALKER at Autumn Graduation Ceremony on 10 April 2003 (UP 2003b:11) Chancellor's Medal awarded to Gabriël Theron (Gawie) FAGAN (BArch 1952) at Autumn Graduation Ceremony on 10 April 2003 (UP 2003b:13) JC (Jan) VAN WIJK awarded the TuksAlumni Board's Laureate Award (TuksAlumni) _______________________________ |
| 2004 |
Gerald SCHULZ (MArch(Prof) 2004) wins Corobrik National Architectural Student of the Year 2004 award (announced on 4 March 2005) with his thesis project ‘Destination M@PUTO’ (Walls and Roofs 2005:66) Maryka VENTER (BSc(Int) 2004) wins Regent / Osram national student luminaire design competition with her prototype ‘Organika’ (VISI 2005:22) Prof RC (Roger) FISHER (acting Head); Prof O ('Ora) JOUBERT Head from 1 September 2004 _______________________________ |
| 2005 |
Cillié MALAN (MArch(Prof) 2005) wins Corobrik National Architectural Student of the Year 2005 award (announced on 17 March 2006) with his thesis project ‘supaMARKET’ (Innovate 2006:132) Rousseau PIENAAR (MArch(Prof) 2004) awarded Innovative ETD Award for his thesis project ‘City building’ (NDLTD) Annece VAN HEERDEN (BSc(Int) 2006) wins Regent / Osram national student luminaire design competition with her prototype ‘Basr-ic’ (NB) _______________________________ |
| 2006 |
UPSpace, the institutional research repository, implemented (UP 2006b:138) South African Institute of the Interior Design Professions (IID) founded (Königk 2010:42) Lianie NAUDÉ (BSc(Int) 2006) wins second prize (and R10 000) in Eskom's Energy Efficient Lighting Design Competition with her luminaire 'Stanley' in the category residential luminaire design (students) (NEWS) On Thursday 10 August 2006 the Qb Awards for South African Interior Design were presented at a gala event at Gallagher Estate. In the student category, three of the four finalists were students from the Programme in Interior Architecture, Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria. The overall winner of this category was Sureen UYS (BSc(Int) 2005). The other two finalists from the Department were Stephanie VAN DYK (MInt(Prof) 2005) and Lorinda BEZUIDENHOUT (BSc(Int) 2005) (NB) Four third year BSc(Arch) students, Matthew Bosch, Lizelle Cloete, Marco Freeks and Donovan Gottsman, win national Murray & Roberts-Des Baker Architecture Student’s Competition with ‘The Wall’ for the community of Nellmapius, a project supported by UP's Research Development Fund (UP 2006a) Cillié MALAN (MArch(Prof) 2005) wins Sasol New Signatures competition 2006 (and R60,000) with his video work titled ‘Motsebetsi ya Motsho ’Black Labour’ (Supa Market)’ (Sasol 2006) Glen GALLAGHER awarded Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa in Architecture by UP (UP 2006c:14-15) _______________________________ |
| 2007 |
Marinda SMALBERGER (MArch(Prof) 2007) wins Corobrik National Architectural Student of the Year 2007 award (announced on 16 February 2008) with her thesis project 'Portal to Pretoria, Establishing a Northern Gateway for the City' (Designing Ways 2008:48) Annemie VAN DEN HEEVER (MArch(Prof) 2006) awarded Innovative ETD Award for her thesis project 'Field public space infrastructure' (NDLTD) _______________________________ |
| 2008 |
Access to the databases of ArchUP (TOBi, see 1973, 1981, 1996, 2001) and PlanUP (TOPi, see 1996) is transferred to Sabinet on 24 July 2008. The archival material indexed on PlanUP is accessed on UPSpace, now via Sabinet (KvN; HG) Virtual Campus, initiated by Leon Pienaar, launched on 3 October 2008 with digital modelling of all buildings on Hatfield Main Campus (NEWS) Lianie NAUDÉ (MInt(Prof) 2008) and Elana VAN DER WATH (MInt(Prof) 2008) spend a semester of their thesis year as exchange students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago under Hennie REYNDERS Prof RC (Roger) FISHER (acting Head from 1 October 2008) _______________________________ |
| 2009 |
South African Institute of the Interior Design Professions (IID) accepted by South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) as a voluntary association (Königk 2010:42) Department of Architecture proposes to SACAP that interior design be established as a profession and as an architectural discipline (Königk 2010:42) African Perspectives 2009, an international conference jointly organised by the Department of Architecture, UP, ArchiAfrika and the Pretoria Institute for Architecture, held at the University of Pretoria, 25-28 September 2009 (NB) Prof KA (Karel) BAKKER is Head _______________________________ |
| 2010 |
Interior design registration categories proposed to SACAP by UP and IID (in collaboration with NMMU and UJ) (Königk 2010:42) Three third year BSc(Arch) students win the national Murray & Roberts-Des Baker competition with their entry ‘An extraordinary machine’: CC (Carla) Taljaard, SP (Stephen) Steyn and WA (Warwick) Manley; announced 28 September 2010 (RvR) Ané MATTHEE (BSc(Int) 2010) wins second prize (and R20 000) in Eskom's Energy Efficient Lighting Design Competition with her luminaire 'Luminest' in the category residential luminaire design (students) (Eskom 2010) Dr Jaco WASSERFALL (BArch 1982) 22nd Sophia Gray Laureate, presents Sophia Grey Memorial Lecture 'NO GRAFFITI, PLEASE! STULTORUM CALAMI CARBONES MOENIA CHARAE' and Exhibition (Artefacts) Jacques ORTON (MArch(Prof) 2009) awarded Innovative Learning through ETDs Award for his thesis project ‘Urban agriculture - a community development project’ (NDLTD) ableUP (African Buildings and Landscape Environment) portal launched officially on 4 May 2010 with an online archive (ABLESpace, the institutional repository digital collections of the Department) a wiki (ableWIKI), a blog, forum (ABLEforum) and an integrated search function; ableUP is a community service which actively promotes the understanding, documentation and conservation of our built heritage; initiated and managed by Nicholas CLARKE and run by Henning van Aswegen (NC) _______________________________ |
| 2011 |
Upgrading of the Department's CAD laboratory completed on 7 April 2011: full replacement of 35 PC-workstations with 50 Apple MC508 iMac 21.5", new chairs, antistatic floor and other new finishes, an audio visual system and A4 & A3 colour/black and white Xerox printers (LP) Jankel Nieuwoudt, currently enrolled for MArch(Prof) declared winner in the sustainability section of the 2010 DesignHub Respond-Renew-Revitalise Competition, sponsored by Saint Gobain, with his project 'Serving the City – The Carlton Centre as mechanism for change in urban Johannesburg'. Jankel won R10,000. Five students from UP reached the final stage and presented their proposals to the adjudication panel on 22 February 2011. Prof Piet VOSLOO was named best lecturer to participate in the competition and the Department was named best university participant, earning a prize of R60,000.00 (NB) Ruann VAN DER WESTHUIZEN's (MArch(Prof) 2009) thesis project (A public bathhouse) announced as one of the final eight winners of the Hunter Douglas Awards at the biannual Archiprix International competition at the award ceremony held on 9 June 2011 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Ruann's project was also nominated as a participant’s favourite. (Archiprix International 2011) |
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ORAL (AND OTHER) SOURCES:
APB: Prof Alewyn P BURGER (personal communication on 2011-05-23)
CB: Cobus BOTHMA (MArch(Prof) 2003) (personal communication on 2011-06-02)
DH: Prof Dieter HOLM (e-mail communication from Holm to Nico Botes Re: OPVOLG: VRAE, received on 2011-05-30)
GT: Dr Gwen THERON (personal communication on 2011-05-25)
HG: Hettie Groenewald, Institutional Repository Manager, UP (personal communication on 2011-06-02)
HW: Prof Hans WEGELIN (personal communication on 2011-02-17)
JdR: Johan DE RIDDER, BArch 1950 (personal communication on 2011-05-23)
JK: Prof Joe KEMP (personal communication on 2011-05-24)
KvN: Karlien van Niekerk, Senior Technical Assistant: Information Systems, Department of Architecture, UP
LP: Leon Pienaar (personal communication on 2011-06-15)
MB: Marnus BARNARD (personal communication on 2011-05-30)
MdK: Marianne DE KLERK (personal communication on 2011-06-15)
ME: MC (Mike) EKSTEEN, BArch 1950 (personal communication on 2011-05-23)
NB: Nico BOTES
NC: Nicholas CLARKE (personal communication on 2011-06-16)
RvR: Rudolf VAN RENSBURG (personal communication on 2011-05-30)