House Cachucho - Last week

This coming week is the last week of construction on House Cachucho, my parents should be moving in on Wednesday, it has been a crazy last few weeks.

The Magic Flute - Diana Damrau performing the Queen of the Night aria

I have just watched the South African version of the Magic Flute and was completely blown away. Kentridge added some wonderful effects to the opera, but the opera itself is sublime! It must be seen.

Get Crit7 in full colour

Download Crit7 now and get to see it in glorious colour.
Get it HERE

RENT - Alexandra Theater 8 out of 5!

I recently saw RENT at the Alexandra Theater in Braamfontein.
This is likely to be one of the best musicals in Johannesburg for the year (if not the decade). The cast was simply staggering. Ilse Klink who plays Joanne Jefferson was flawless in her sinning part and Zane Gillion who plays the ever interesting Angel (a transexual) could compare favorably to the original Broadway actor.
I must say that I am very tempted to go watch it again and am currently listening to the soundtrack as I type this out.
(Photos from www.joburg.org.za)

Suburban Crossing image

An image from my latest project. Suburban Crossing

efrcDESIGN Portfolio 2005

Hello, here is my portfolio for 2005.
If you cant see the video, click HERE

I Guard this Yard

An image created for the suburbia project.
(Selected for Sasol Signatures 2007)

Suburban Crossing

This is my 5th year Design video for a subject called Versions of Suburbia, lectured by Hilton Judin.
If video is not visible, see it HERE

Crit 5

Download Crit 5 now:
HERE!

Student ARCHIFILMFEST

I have been organising a film festival at WITS, it will be running from 7-11 May from 6pm in the Dorothy Susskind Auditorium (A1) in the John Moffat building. It will be an exciting mix of documentaries, student work, normal movies and some guest lectures.

ASC07 Photos and Videos

ASC07

Click on the image above to see the photos and videos of the Architectural Student Conference held in Cape Town.

trigger - activation node

It is finished at last! We handed in our urban design project yesterday and had a very good reaction from the pannel. Above is an image of the amphitheater in the project.
(Project members: Catherine de Sousa, Guy Trangos, Jenna Stelli and me)

Na1dw0rk 2

crit4

crit4 was released this week!
Check out the magazine that I edited and designed:
Get it HERE

slice

Had a bit of an accident last week, lacerated my finger and proved to myself what an utter baby I am. Beware the knives ....

efrc in Paris, the end

efrc in Paris has come to and end.

I'm busy moving all my images to blogger at the moment. Find the link on the right hand bar.

wrapps and more

Hello there, I am going to start updating this blog once more, as my old service doesn't allow commenting from non registered users...
So here we start.
First of all, wrapps is bubbling along at the moment and I am quite excited about getting this blog going again, as there are now far more features that I can use.
Till the next post...
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Dream Scape

This is an image from my des baker project, showing the mapping of Johannesburg for my project, dealing with public areas that are lacking private space for contemplation (Thinking/Dreaming)

ica's CiCo's and the like

New technologies in media and information collection
now allow information catchment aread (ica's) to
become de-centralized. This allows a culture with a
rich heritage such as south africa to use the
traditional oral history in an active technological
environment in order to become more acessible.

The Central Information Catchment Organisation (CiCo)
has its end goal as one of a information
collector/archiver through the newest possible
technologies and to store this information for future
generations.

to be continued

city context, showing the kind of dream state that is missing.