[JDPUB: 87] Blueprints in Black and White: The Built Environment Professions in South Africa - an Outline History by John Bizzell

 

 

Blueprints in Black and White: The Built Environment Professions in South Africa – an Outline History by John Bizzell is now available from Just Done  R125.00

 

An illustrated history of the professions, particularly architecture, culminating in statements about the challenges of the present from the leading contemporary practitioners. Commissioned by the Department of Public Works.

 

Summary: Starting with indigenous African architecture, follows the history of architecture, building, engineering, town planning etc through the various stages of South African history, up to the apartheid era and that following. A history of architecture, engineering, town planning etc in South Africa, from the earliest records to the present day.

 

The South African building professions are facing multi-faceted change:

* change in the legislation which governs their work

* in the kinds of work  now before them

* in their professional associations

* in technology choices

* in helping to heal the damage done by the South African

   past

 

Blueprints examines the process of change from South Africa's earliest beginnings. It looks at the various forces that moulded the built environment we have inherited and outlines the history of the professions, their associations and their training programmes. It records achievements both great and questionable, a story sometimes quirky and humorous, sometimes tragic, peopled by many extraordinary, larger-than-life personalities.

 

The author has interviewed experts and practitioners from many different fields: engineers, architects, planners, large and small-scale builders. Their daily encounters with new problems bring new insights, as the interviews explore the challenges ahead.

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The built environment professions have always been in the thick of history, often acting as a litmus of social change. This is a book for anyone interested in South African history, and essential reading for anyone interested in the country's future.

 

Author’s biography:

After graduating from the University of Natal in 1961 John Bizzell helped Hans Hallen get his ground-breaking architectural practice in Durban under way (he was his first employee), and later opened his own short-lived Johannesburg partnership, BAKR, which he had to abandon in the post-Rivonia turbulence. He and his wife Maggie were forced into exile and lived in Canada, where he read for his Masters in Urban Design at the University of Toronto under Jack Diamond. Later he helped Diamond start his prestigious Toronto-based practice, and headed the research team under him on the seminal 1970 study, "Housing: Density, Distribution and Costs", funded by Canada's Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation. After 1994 they returned to South Africa to work mainly on rural based projects, John in construction and Maggie in education. He currently practises as an architect and project manager near Durban.

 

ISBN13: 978-0-620-28492-9

Year of publication: 2002

Format: A4, 142 p, section sewn, soft cover in full colour, gloss laminated, text with photographs (both black and white and full colour)

 

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