Johannesburg: Emerging / Diverging Metropolis
Academy of Architecture
The book offers an overview of the transformations under way in Johannesburg and its metropolitan area, and a selection of the most interesting architectural and urban projects completed or under way in the last ten years. The common denominator of the best of these projects is twofold: firstly, they implement architectural and planning practices to overcome the social, political and cultural divisions of the past and to respond to the fluidity of the post apartheid landscape; secondly, they contribute to develop South Africa’s enormous economic potential and to make its principal cities international points of reference.
Texts in English by Josep Acebillo, Lindsay Bremner, Pep Subirós, Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall.