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Rivertown is formerly Durban’s light industrial
Beyond this point - Registered delegates only area, the Rivertown precinct lies to the east of
the Durban CBD. A canal, currently enclosed,
River Town Street closure traverses this area, and water from areas that

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drains into the Canal and is dispersed into the
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Beer Hall to draw interest back to Durban’s CBD. Arts

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Public access and culture initiatives and exhibitions will be
run during the Congress to show the opportu-
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Delegates only access vibrancy back to the area. The UIA Heritage and
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[ Open to public ] UIA Exhibition have launched a student competition calling
for urban design proposals for a rejuvenated

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DEC Trade and precinct.
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and the Congress activities will be
delivered in 38 venues.

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Dr A B Xuma Street Centre complex includes the Dr A B Xuma Street
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Durban Exhibition Centre (DEC)

and Walnut Road that sepa-
rates it from the ICC and which Monty Naicker Road Monty Naicker Road
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will be closed during the event.
Walnut Road will be “occupied”
by students and various other Priority
programmes. It will also have a Zone
Mussallah (prayer space) for our Palmer Street
Muslim delegates, some traders
from Warwick and other architec-
tural and artist interventions.
Prority Zone
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eThekwini municipality is implementing the Priority Zone
Project in order to transform Durban’s inner city from a
crime and grime-ridden area into a pleasant experience
for all. The project falls under the auspices of Jonathan
Edkins, Deputy Head of the Architecture department of
eThekwini, and is spearheaded by Derek White, urban
development manager of City Architects. In line with DR PIXLEY KA SEME LINEAR PARK
the Municipality’s Renewal and Urban Management

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Programme, this pilot model has been maximising and A new wave of architectural renewal will be inspired
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integrating municipal line services within the demarcated through this project by redefining the perception of the

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zone since early 2010. The result is a cleaner, safer inner inner city as an economic, social and cultural centre and
city - and a model that can be duplicated universally. The emphasizing its value through it’s diversity. The city’s
most exciting “secret” feature of the Priority Zone is an Inner City Renewal Team will activate Step One of the

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unexpected, well-kept and beautiful roof garden project vision for a pedestrian priority zone along Dr Pixely
ka Seme Street in time for the Congress. An exhibition
detailing the project and outlining the plans for a 400-me-
tre stretch of Durban’s inner city greened and re-purposed
will showcase what is possible with the creation of a high
quality public space for people who live and work in the
City to relax, exercise and play.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

DIÉBÉDO FRANCIS KÉRÉ MONGANE WALLY SEROTE ZAHIRA ASMAL

Burkina Faso South Africa South Africa

Diébédo Francis Kéré is a German-trained architect from the small west African Mongane Wally Serote is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer at iARi Zahira Asmal is the founder and managing director of DESIGNING_
village of Gando in Burkina Faso. He is the founder of Kéré Architecture and Chairperson of Indigenous Knowledge System Of South Africa Trust Interim SOUTHAFRICA, a non-profit research and advocacy organisation focused on
Schulbausteine für Gando (Bricks for Gando), a charitable foundation focused Chairperson of African Renaissance Foundation Associate Professor at UNISA design for social advancement. Asmal has worked with governments, designers,
towards realising sustainable architecture for the growth of his community. Board member for the past three years of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF) architects, academics and the media globally. Her first book, Reflections &
Francis Kéré’s work has been recognised with international awards. Today, Chairman of the board at Joburg Theatres.
Opportunities: Design, Cities and the World Cup was published in English and
he continues to support the educational, cultural and sustainable needs of Brazilian Portuguese and focuses on the design legacy and lessons learned in
communities in Burkina Faso and around the world through architecture. city making from the 2010 World Cup.
JOE OSAE-ADDO
Ghana

Trained at the Architectural Association in London, Joe Osae-Addo is the CEO of THOMAS AQUILINA
SUSANNAH DRAKE United Kingdom
Constructs R+D, an ‘innov-native’ (TM) research and development company and
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the Chairman of ArchiAfrika Foundation, a non-profit organisation engaged in
the promotion of African design and architecture. Thomas Aquilina is a researcher at LSE Cities at the London School of Economics
Susannah Drake is the Principal of DLANDSTUDIO in the USA, a multi- and Political Science. He is a graduated from the University of Edinburgh
disciplinary design firm that reinvents and retrofits urban infrastructure to make and in 2012 he was awarded the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship,
it more ecologically productive. In 2013 Drake was honored with the Emerging documenting informal livelihoods and recycling practices in six African cities.
Voices Award by the New York Architectural League; Urban Design Fellowship GEORGE MILLER
His research interest is the resiliencies of urban residency in Africa, and with
from the Design Trust for Public Space; and the Brunner & Young Architect USA
it, the possibilities. He has worked for international architectural practices in
Award from the AIA. London and at UN-Habitat in Nairobi. He has recently been nominated to the
George H. Miller, FAIA became the managing partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
RIBA Validation Panel. 
Architects in 1989 and has worked with I. M. Pei since 1975. In recognition of his
RAHUL MEHROTRA lifetime of contributions to the profession, George H. Miller received the highest
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India/USA honor bestowed by the New York State Chapter of the American Institute of
Monday, 4 August 2014 MANELIS
Architects, the James William Kideney Gold Medal Award. He is currently the
South Africa
Rahul Mehrotra, architect and educator, works in Mumbai and teaches at the President of the AIA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Institute.
Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he is Professor of Urban
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Manelis is a hiphop artist from Durban. One of the defining artists in this city’s
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rap development from the mid ‘90’s. He draws inspiration from old African
as well as a member of the steering committee of Harvard’s South Asia Initiative
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flavours to weave an unmatched and genuine sound. His streetwise lyricism
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urban experience – sometimes soulful, sometimes experimental – inspired by

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Architects’ Denver Chapter. valuable contribution to South Africa. Schooled in Fine Arts, she has worked
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maintaining indigenous tradition.

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Toyo graduated in1965-69 from The University of Tokyo, Department of
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and now is commissioner of Kumamoto Artpolis. He is the recipient of the 2013

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Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder and former CEO for Architecture for Humanity,
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He is currently the Executive Director of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, working on
projects in Namibia and Ethiopia in addition to Asia and the United States.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2014 Norway

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen was born in the Norwegian city of Haugesund and spent
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numerous awards and accolades. KwaZulu-Natal Institute of Architects
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Sindile Ngonyama is the principal director of Ngonyama Okpanum and

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Wang Shu established the Amateur Architecture Studio with his wife, Lu Wenyu, HP

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in 1997; and he currently serves as the head of the School of Architecture at the
China Academy of Art. He is the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize
and the Schelling Architecture Prize 2010. Intel