African Design Magazine ADM #39 April 2018 | Page 45

AZA18
ARCHITECTURE ZA 2018:
WeTheCity
Architecture ZA 2018 (#AZA18), Africa’s premier urban cultural festival
focused on architecture, is taking place at 012Central in the Pretoria inner
city from 3-5 May 2018. As excitement around the event mounts, African
Design Magazine spoke exclusively to a number of the speakers, including
Luyanda Mpahlwa, Vice-President of the South African Institute of Architects
(SAIA), which hosts the event, and PPC’s Daniel van der Merwe.
Co-hosted by the University of Pretoria (UP) and the Tshwane University of
Technology (TUT), this three-day festival comprises two days of conference
presentations and one day of tours and masterclasses. The programme will
include keynote presentations, parallel sessions, student design sessions,
films, and professional practice sessions.
In 2018, the new PPC Imaginarium Awards for Architecture were launched,
and all architecture schools in South Africa were invited to take part. The PPC
Imaginarium Awards for Architecture will take place annually and will remain
a stand-alone event held separately from the rest of the PPC Imaginarium
Awards. The work of all entrants will be displayed at #AZA18, judged by the
AZA18 Keynote speakers and the winner and runner-up will be announced on
3 May 2018.
Under the theme ‘WeTheCity: Memory & Resilience’, the #AZA18 programme
will focus on issues of design and practice concerning environmental
potential, cultural heritage and human settlement. Members of the public,
students, designers and artists, urban thinkers, economists, architectural and
built environment professionals are encouraged to attend.
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