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These documents are articles that have been published in local architectural and design magazines over the past few years.
Most of our exhibition work comes out of the attitude developed in these texts.

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> Public Space? In Johannesburg?
The life of cities occurs in public space. People activate public space in order to live the choices city life offers, and to project their identity and their desires into and onto a landscape that is a given and a constant...
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> Johannesburg : a different Urban Renewal
Johannesburg is one of the fastest growing cities on the African continent. It is and remains a magnet of attraction for urban migrants from across the country and the continent. This is in spite of its negative image as a Crime Capital. In spite of its basically unattractive physical landscape. In spite of its history of division and inequality...
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> Urban Green File, Inspiration: January 2005
Peel back time: painting these walls red and more.
It all started one Saturday morning last August, when I noticed abseilers in red overalls hanging precariously from red ropes on red walls, painting the town... well, red. Just like that...
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> Joburg Icons: (#1 in series of 10)
Vroom with a View: the Top Star Drive-In
It is said of Jo'burg that it has none of 'the things that make a city'- a river, a mountain, the sea. It's simply not beautiful, you see, and we all know that people live here only for the money. We'd all rather be in Cape Town, right? And Jo'burg is simply so... uninspiring, right?...
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> Soweto, The Dis-Location
Until a few years ago, an outsider whose knowledge of South Africa arose solely from the consumption of international media may have be forgiven for thinking of Johannesburg as a suburb of Soweto, which is where the real action is. Yes, Johannesburg is near Soweto. It's right over there, behind the mine dumps. Yes, over there, where you can see the bright lights...
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> Johannesburg : Landscapes of Desire.
An investigation into Johannesburg for the Biennale di Venezia 2000
Cities make visible the enactment of human desire on the landscape. The urban landscape of Johannesburg clearly reflects the agendas of colonial opportunism and racial segregation aimed at the extraction of its hidden wealth...
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