The South African Institute of Architects - SAIA - announces the ArchitectureZA 2015 festival to take place in Johannesburg on 24 - 26 September 2015.

It is organised in collaboration with the Gauteng Institute for Architecture (Gifa) and the University of Johannesburg (UJ). The program targets the widest possible audience of architects and other actors in the design community. ArchitectureZA is one of the biggest events devoted to urban culture in Africa. It brings together cutting-edge thinkers and multidisciplinary practitioners working with the natural and built environment from around the world. AZA presentations, workshops, exhibitions, and film festivals have attracted over a thousand participants to earlier editions of the festival. 

AZA2010 – Johannesburg, Potato Sheds, Newtown

AZA2015 is of seminal importance, as it enables architects and designers to meet, debate  and answer the following definitive questions, amongst others:

-How have cities been shaped and how will they continue to shape our modern world?

–  What are the key issues challenging future cities, and in particular South African Cities and how can these challenges be overcome using innovative, elegant solutions? The September AZA2015 provides architects and related professionals with the valuable opportunity of being able to  engage with international and local speakers prepared to share their expertise and debate critical issues around architecture and the city.

This festival will also be open to the  public to enjoy.  The  Gifa exhibition of Regional Institutes’ Awards for Architecture exhibitions are geared to create interest amongst the public in search of South Africa’s finest architecture.  During the evening design focused film festivals will be screened and city tours conducted.

> via architectureza.org