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The University of Johannesburg Art Gallery will present a solo exhibition, entitled CITIES OF THE WORLD with panoramic works by Titus Matiyane from 10 March to 15 April 2009.

Titus Matiyane (1964), artist, sculpture and musician, lives and works in Atteridgeville, a township near Pretoria. He creates huge panoramic drawings of cities and landscapes all over the world from a bird’s-eye view. The drawings, which vary in size from 6 to 46 meters long, take viewers on an journey through urban landscapes, which Matiyane depicts with a great sense of technique and visionary craftsmanship.

COROBRIK CONTINUES TO SUPPORT ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS

Architectural graduates from seven institutions throughout South Africa will compete for the prestigious twenty-second Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year at a function to be held on the 18 March 2009 in the Ballroom at the Wanderers Club 21 North Road, Illovo, Johannesburg commencing at 18h00.

Mr. Dirk Meyer, Corobrik’s Managing Director said, “Our involvement with the architectural profession stems back to our company’s beginnings in 1902. As a Patron of Architecture and having together with our products stood the test of time ourselves, it seems fitting, in the context of the current sustainability debate where architects have such a fundamental role to play in defining our environment of tomorrow, that Corobrik should continue its support of Architectural Students of the Year programme”.

Corobrik initiated this competition 22 years ago to promote quality design practices and to acknowledge architectural talent amongst students in meeting the challenges of the day.

PG Group Public lectures in Architecture: Thomas Vietzke from the office of Zaha Hadid at UCT, WITS & NMMU

AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES 2009, the third international conference in the series to be hosted in Africa, will focus on the unique and diverse character of the African City as resource, as well as resourcing the city.

What started as a one-off event in Tanzania in 2005 under the title 'Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence' was followed up by the 'African Architecture Today' congress in Kumasi, Ghana in 2007. During the African Perspectives event at the Delft University of Technology in December 2007, it has been decided by a group of institutes to establish the series into a bi-annual event hosted on the African continent focusing on urbanism and architecture of the continent.