International Master Semester 1 (Msc 1) Theory Project
Course Description
Over the past several decades the constitutive limits within the profession of architecture have significantly expanded what we might have previously referred to as the ‘problem of making’; equally, matters which concern theoretical discourse within spatial disciplines have, in many cases, transgressed what was traditionally understood as the ‘problem of thought’. Together, they have become much more intertwined in the form of what we may generally refer to as the ‘problematic of thinking’.
With this in mind, and by letting go of the classic Theory vs. Practice dualism (whereby theory is seen to somehow pose or formulate the problematic to which design must subsequently respond, or in which design will then be engaged in order to issue answers), we hope to offer a more transdisciplinary approach to the integral nature of spatial problematics as they derive from the workings of the architect both in terms of intellectual discourse and design as intuitive intelligence. Deborah Hauptmann)
Reflection on the Works
This theory course has an interesting name: Theory Project. It is not only the theoretical component of a young architectural student’s training, but also a ‘project’. A project is not a mere assignment but an assemblage of purpose, idea and proposition. The project, in a wider definition through a lifetime’s work, is what defines the intellectual. At the university when one starts the training as an professional, or better as an intellectual, the project starts.
In this understanding of project and the responsibility as a teacher, I have always preferred seeing myself as a midwife- a facilitator for students’ path towards the formulation of his/her project. I believe students have left their familiar and comfortable homes to study abroad because they are pursuing something more important and more complex than the knowledge of assembling buildings. In all the students’ works I try to discover with them what they are searching for and formulate their project. To take this position as a teacher one leaves one’s personal taste or private interests behind and be in the mind of the students. In this semester I am honoured to witness very significant transformation of some students in my group.
We used the essays of Michael Speaks, Bruno Latour, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze as starting point of the journey. Key notions adopted by students are: innovation, thing, lines of flight, becoming, simulacrum, landscape, post-structuralism, memory, world citizen, identity, complexity and the modern condition.
It has been a beautiful journey accompanying nine students’ search of ‘projects’. After hardcore philosophical reading, they extracted what puzzled them in modern life, relation between thinking and making, and modes of innovation. And what invigorated me most in this tutoring process is when the theoretical moments touched the student’s soul and brought out his/her existential crisis to confront one’s past, presence and future. This is evident in Xiaoguang’s metamorphosis and Megan’s answers in modern nomad. Theory project in this sense has become one of ‘those moments in a life after which one is no longer the same person as before’ (P. Patton, The Deleuze Dictionary: freedom). And I am curious what their projects are after Theory Project. (Shiuan-Wen Chu)
Students
Daniel Beirao de Carvalho
Janita Pei Ling Han
Taeyun Kim
Lin Lin
Yu-Chen Lin
Megan Fei Men Ng
Hjordis Soley Sigurdardottir
Jana Veselka
Xiaoguang Zhang
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Theory Project: Text/Object
Definition of Text/Object (T/O):
In the second half of the semester (weeks 10 – 15) the seminar will develop through a series of small assignments; this will be approached through a mechanism (or in Deleuzian parlance, a machine) developed by the theory department known as a ‘Text/Object’. This section of the Theory Project assignments will provide for a clear link between the work being carried out in the design studio and the theory seminar readings. Each week all students will be expected to present their individual Text/Object assignments during the seminar.
Tutor’s notes:
1) T/O contains both textual and graphic representations that highlight a single concept or a complex set of issues derived from the key words/notions of students’ choices. The T/O can be produced in many ways: either a fairly refined computer generated layout, a hand produced collage, or a three-dimensional object to name a few. All T/O should combine text (either written by the student or taken from the reading as well as possible other resources) and images (also, either generated by the student or taken from outside resources). The weekly assignment is intended to exhibit the student’s grasp of key notions. T/O bridges the gap between theory and application. It is no illustration of an application. Develop process and ways to construct object. The construction of the T/O itself shows the understanding of the key word/notion. The act of making this T/O is the essence of practice.
2) The text/object will contain both textual and graphic representations that highlight a particular concept or problematic as derived from the required readings of the first week, namely - TIME. The text object is not intended as an illustration of the arguments made in the readings; it should, by the nature of its construction and the process exhibited in its making/reveal a critical understanding and interpretation of the theories under discussion. The text/object can be produced in many ways: either a fairly refined computer generated layout, a hand produced collage, or a three-dimensional object to name a few. All text/objects should combine text (either written by the student or taken from the reading) and images (generated by the student).
3) Format of Text/Object: Model, drawing, graphics, and text. Text printed on A4 portrait, or integrated as part of the T/O object.
In the second half of the semester (weeks 10 – 15) the seminar will develop through a series of small assignments; this will be approached through a mechanism (or in Deleuzian parlance, a machine) developed by the theory department known as a ‘Text/Object’. This section of the Theory Project assignments will provide for a clear link between the work being carried out in the design studio and the theory seminar readings. Each week all students will be expected to present their individual Text/Object assignments during the seminar.
Tutor’s notes:
1) T/O contains both textual and graphic representations that highlight a single concept or a complex set of issues derived from the key words/notions of students’ choices. The T/O can be produced in many ways: either a fairly refined computer generated layout, a hand produced collage, or a three-dimensional object to name a few. All T/O should combine text (either written by the student or taken from the reading as well as possible other resources) and images (also, either generated by the student or taken from outside resources). The weekly assignment is intended to exhibit the student’s grasp of key notions. T/O bridges the gap between theory and application. It is no illustration of an application. Develop process and ways to construct object. The construction of the T/O itself shows the understanding of the key word/notion. The act of making this T/O is the essence of practice.
2) The text/object will contain both textual and graphic representations that highlight a particular concept or problematic as derived from the required readings of the first week, namely - TIME. The text object is not intended as an illustration of the arguments made in the readings; it should, by the nature of its construction and the process exhibited in its making/reveal a critical understanding and interpretation of the theories under discussion. The text/object can be produced in many ways: either a fairly refined computer generated layout, a hand produced collage, or a three-dimensional object to name a few. All text/objects should combine text (either written by the student or taken from the reading) and images (generated by the student).
3) Format of Text/Object: Model, drawing, graphics, and text. Text printed on A4 portrait, or integrated as part of the T/O object.
Theory Project: Bibliography
Bibliography
This extended bibliography is provided for the purpose of the student’s individual research interest.
Many of the readings presented below correlate to the DSD Michael Speaks workshop reading list.
Please note:
- (*) denotes the required readings for all groups.
- [SWC] denotes the required readings for Shiuan-Wen Chu's group.
Essays, articles and Chapters from books:
(SWC)Stan Allen, “Pragmatism in Practice” (manuscript), from: “Pragmatist Imagination” Conference, Museum of Modern Art, New York, November, 1999.
Alain Badiou, ‘The Adventure in French Philosophy’, in: New Left Review, no. 35, Sept/Oct 2005.
Alain Badiou, ‘Philosophy and Desire’, in: Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy,(2003 [1992]).
(*) George Baird, ‘“Criticality” and Its Discontents’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, no. 21, Fall 2004 / Winter 2005.
(*) Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, ‘On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature’, in: Dialogues, trans., Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (1987 [1977])
(*) Jacques Derrida, ‘Point de Folie—Maintenant l’architecture’, in: Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. K. Michael Hays (1998).
Jacques Derrida, ‘Différance’, in: Margins of Philosophy (1982).
Jacques Derrida, ‘Architecture Where the Desire Can Live’, interview with Eva Mayer, in: Domus, April 1986
Peter F. Drucker, “Introduction” and “Chapter One: From Capitalism to Knowledge Society,” Post Capitalist Society (1993).
Peter Eisenman, ‘Misreading’, in: Houses of Cards, pp. 168-187, (1987).
Peter Eisenman, ‘Presentness and the ‘Being-Only-Once’ of Architecture’, in: Deconstruction is/in America, ed. Anselm Haverkamp, (1995).
Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, ‘The Ideal Type for Sixties Philosophy’, in: French Philosophy of the Sixties, trans. Mary Schnackenberg Cattani(1990 [1985]).
Michel Foucault, ‘Truth & Power’, in: Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, ed. Colin Gordon et al., (1980)
Jurgen Habermas, Lecture VI: ‘The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger’, in: The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, trans. Frederick Lawrence (1987 [1985]).
(*) K. Michael Hays, ‘Introduction’, in: ed. K.M. Hays, Architecture Theory Since 1968, (1998)
(*) Martin Heidegger, ‘The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking’, in: Basic Writings, ed. David Krell, (1977 [1969] ).
(SWC) Martin Heidegger, ‘What Calls for Thinking’, in: Basic Writings, ed. David Krell, (1977 [1954]).
Martin Heidegger, ‘Letter on Humanism’, in: Basic Writings, ed. David Krell, (1977 [1954]).
Martin Heidegger, ‘Memorial Address’, in: Discourse on Thinking, (1966 [1959]).
Richard Hofstadter, ‘On the Unpopularity of Intellect’, in: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1962).
Steven Johnson, ‘Introduction’, and ‘The Pattern Match’, in: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software (2002).
Jeffrey Kipnis, ‘Towards a New Architecture’, in: Folding in Architecture, ed. Greg Lynn (1993).
Sanford Kwinter, ‘Can One Go Beyond Piranesi? (Liner Notes for a Building Revisited)’, in: Eleven Authors in Search of a Building, ed. Cynthia Davidson (1996).
Sanford Kwinter, ‘Leap into the Void: A New Organon,?’, in: ANYHOW, ed. Cynthia Davidson (1998).
(*) Bruno Latour, ‘Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern’, in: Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004).
Greg Lynn, ‘Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, The Pliant and the Supple’, in: Folding in Architecture, ed. Greg Lynn (1993).
Colin Rowe, ‘Introduction to Five Architects’, in: Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. K. Michael Hays (1998).
Michael Schrage, ‘The New Economics of Innovation’ and ‘A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge’, in: Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate (2000).
(SWC) Michael Speaks, ‘Design Intelligence: Thinking in Architecture after Metaphysics,’ AD: Versioning, ed. SHOP, October 2002.
Michael Speaks, ‘It’s Out There: The Formal Limits of the American Avant-garde’, in: AD: Hypersurface Architecture, 1998.
Michael Speaks, ‘How the New Economy is Transforming Theory and Practice’, in: Architectural Record, no. 12, December 2000.
(*)Michael Speaks, ‘No Hope, No Fear: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Architecture’, in: a+u 372, September 2001.
Michael Speaks, ‘Niederländisch™’, in: Arch+ 162, October 2002.
Michael Speaks, ‘Plausible Space’, in: Dimensions no. 17 (2003). [Also excerpted in Hunch: Double Dutch, The Berlage Institute Report, no. 8, Summer 2004].
(SWC)Michael Speaks, ‘After Theory’, in: Architectural Record, June 2005.
(SWC)Michael Speaks, ‘Ideals, Ideology, Intelligence in China and the West’, and ‘China-West Dialogue’, in: Shidai Jianzhu: Time + Architecture (Tongji University, Shanghai, forthcoming September, 2006).
Michael Speaks, ‘Fabrication: The Fifth Ecology of Los Angeles’, in: Architectural Record Reveals: Los Angeles: 5 podcast interviews: David Erdman, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Tom Wiscombe, Florencia Pita, Jason Payne, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Andreas Froech (May, 2006). http://archrecord.construction.com/features/LA/podcasts-index.asp
Michael Speaks, ‘Screen vs. Script’, in: Perspecta 38: Architecture After All, 2006.
Michael Speaks, ‘Design Intelligence: Thinking in Architecture after Metaphysics’, in AD: Versioning, ed. SHOP, October 2002
(SWC) Michael Speaks, Design Intelligence: Part 12: Patterns/Marcelo Spina, a+u 399, December 2003
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 11: Archi-Tectonics/Winka Dubbeldam, a+u 398, November 2003
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 10: Greg Lynn, a+u 396, September 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 9: SERVO, a+u 395, August 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 8: Hernan Diaz Alonso, a+u 394, July 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 7: Max.1, a+u 393, June 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 6: LWPAC, a+u 392, May 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 5: Asymptote: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, a+u 391, April 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 4: Neil Denari, a+u 390, March 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence Part 3. AMO, a+u 389, February 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence Part 2. George Yu Architects, a+u 388, January 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence. Part 1: Introduction, a+u 387, December 2002.
Bernard Tschumi, Section III: Disjunction, ‘Essays written between 1984-1991’ in: Architecture and Disjunction (1994).
Mark Wigley, ‘The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel’, in: Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. Michael Hays (1998).
Mark Wigley and Jeffrey Kipnis, ‘The Architectural Displacement of Philosophy’, in: Form; Being; Absence: Pratt Journal of Architecture (1988).
Books of Interest:
In addition to the books from which the above essays have been selected, the following books may prove of interest.
@AD: Versioning: Evolutionary Techniques in Architecture, ed. SHoP (2002).
@Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing, ed. Branko Kolarevic.
@Concrete Design Book on Robustness: International Concrete Design Competition for Students 2003/2004, ed. Siebe Baker.
@Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (1994 [1991]).
@Foreign Office Architects, Phylogenesis: FOA’s Ark (2003).
@Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction (2004).
This extended bibliography is provided for the purpose of the student’s individual research interest.
Many of the readings presented below correlate to the DSD Michael Speaks workshop reading list.
Please note:
- (*) denotes the required readings for all groups.
- [SWC] denotes the required readings for Shiuan-Wen Chu's group.
Essays, articles and Chapters from books:
(SWC)Stan Allen, “Pragmatism in Practice” (manuscript), from: “Pragmatist Imagination” Conference, Museum of Modern Art, New York, November, 1999.
Alain Badiou, ‘The Adventure in French Philosophy’, in: New Left Review, no. 35, Sept/Oct 2005.
Alain Badiou, ‘Philosophy and Desire’, in: Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy,(2003 [1992]).
(*) George Baird, ‘“Criticality” and Its Discontents’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, no. 21, Fall 2004 / Winter 2005.
(*) Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, ‘On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature’, in: Dialogues, trans., Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (1987 [1977])
(*) Jacques Derrida, ‘Point de Folie—Maintenant l’architecture’, in: Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. K. Michael Hays (1998).
Jacques Derrida, ‘Différance’, in: Margins of Philosophy (1982).
Jacques Derrida, ‘Architecture Where the Desire Can Live’, interview with Eva Mayer, in: Domus, April 1986
Peter F. Drucker, “Introduction” and “Chapter One: From Capitalism to Knowledge Society,” Post Capitalist Society (1993).
Peter Eisenman, ‘Misreading’, in: Houses of Cards, pp. 168-187, (1987).
Peter Eisenman, ‘Presentness and the ‘Being-Only-Once’ of Architecture’, in: Deconstruction is/in America, ed. Anselm Haverkamp, (1995).
Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, ‘The Ideal Type for Sixties Philosophy’, in: French Philosophy of the Sixties, trans. Mary Schnackenberg Cattani(1990 [1985]).
Michel Foucault, ‘Truth & Power’, in: Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, ed. Colin Gordon et al., (1980)
Jurgen Habermas, Lecture VI: ‘The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger’, in: The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, trans. Frederick Lawrence (1987 [1985]).
(*) K. Michael Hays, ‘Introduction’, in: ed. K.M. Hays, Architecture Theory Since 1968, (1998)
(*) Martin Heidegger, ‘The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking’, in: Basic Writings, ed. David Krell, (1977 [1969] ).
(SWC) Martin Heidegger, ‘What Calls for Thinking’, in: Basic Writings, ed. David Krell, (1977 [1954]).
Martin Heidegger, ‘Letter on Humanism’, in: Basic Writings, ed. David Krell, (1977 [1954]).
Martin Heidegger, ‘Memorial Address’, in: Discourse on Thinking, (1966 [1959]).
Richard Hofstadter, ‘On the Unpopularity of Intellect’, in: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1962).
Steven Johnson, ‘Introduction’, and ‘The Pattern Match’, in: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software (2002).
Jeffrey Kipnis, ‘Towards a New Architecture’, in: Folding in Architecture, ed. Greg Lynn (1993).
Sanford Kwinter, ‘Can One Go Beyond Piranesi? (Liner Notes for a Building Revisited)’, in: Eleven Authors in Search of a Building, ed. Cynthia Davidson (1996).
Sanford Kwinter, ‘Leap into the Void: A New Organon,?’, in: ANYHOW, ed. Cynthia Davidson (1998).
(*) Bruno Latour, ‘Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern’, in: Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004).
Greg Lynn, ‘Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, The Pliant and the Supple’, in: Folding in Architecture, ed. Greg Lynn (1993).
Colin Rowe, ‘Introduction to Five Architects’, in: Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. K. Michael Hays (1998).
Michael Schrage, ‘The New Economics of Innovation’ and ‘A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge’, in: Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate (2000).
(SWC) Michael Speaks, ‘Design Intelligence: Thinking in Architecture after Metaphysics,’ AD: Versioning, ed. SHOP, October 2002.
Michael Speaks, ‘It’s Out There: The Formal Limits of the American Avant-garde’, in: AD: Hypersurface Architecture, 1998.
Michael Speaks, ‘How the New Economy is Transforming Theory and Practice’, in: Architectural Record, no. 12, December 2000.
(*)Michael Speaks, ‘No Hope, No Fear: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Architecture’, in: a+u 372, September 2001.
Michael Speaks, ‘Niederländisch™’, in: Arch+ 162, October 2002.
Michael Speaks, ‘Plausible Space’, in: Dimensions no. 17 (2003). [Also excerpted in Hunch: Double Dutch, The Berlage Institute Report, no. 8, Summer 2004].
(SWC)Michael Speaks, ‘After Theory’, in: Architectural Record, June 2005.
(SWC)Michael Speaks, ‘Ideals, Ideology, Intelligence in China and the West’, and ‘China-West Dialogue’, in: Shidai Jianzhu: Time + Architecture (Tongji University, Shanghai, forthcoming September, 2006).
Michael Speaks, ‘Fabrication: The Fifth Ecology of Los Angeles’, in: Architectural Record Reveals: Los Angeles: 5 podcast interviews: David Erdman, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Tom Wiscombe, Florencia Pita, Jason Payne, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Andreas Froech (May, 2006). http://archrecord.construction.com/features/LA/podcasts-index.asp
Michael Speaks, ‘Screen vs. Script’, in: Perspecta 38: Architecture After All, 2006.
Michael Speaks, ‘Design Intelligence: Thinking in Architecture after Metaphysics’, in AD: Versioning, ed. SHOP, October 2002
(SWC) Michael Speaks, Design Intelligence: Part 12: Patterns/Marcelo Spina, a+u 399, December 2003
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 11: Archi-Tectonics/Winka Dubbeldam, a+u 398, November 2003
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 10: Greg Lynn, a+u 396, September 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 9: SERVO, a+u 395, August 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 8: Hernan Diaz Alonso, a+u 394, July 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 7: Max.1, a+u 393, June 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 6: LWPAC, a+u 392, May 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 5: Asymptote: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, a+u 391, April 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence: Part 4: Neil Denari, a+u 390, March 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence Part 3. AMO, a+u 389, February 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence Part 2. George Yu Architects, a+u 388, January 2003.
(SWC) Design Intelligence. Part 1: Introduction, a+u 387, December 2002.
Bernard Tschumi, Section III: Disjunction, ‘Essays written between 1984-1991’ in: Architecture and Disjunction (1994).
Mark Wigley, ‘The Translation of Architecture, the Production of Babel’, in: Architecture Theory Since 1968, ed. Michael Hays (1998).
Mark Wigley and Jeffrey Kipnis, ‘The Architectural Displacement of Philosophy’, in: Form; Being; Absence: Pratt Journal of Architecture (1988).
Books of Interest:
In addition to the books from which the above essays have been selected, the following books may prove of interest.
@AD: Versioning: Evolutionary Techniques in Architecture, ed. SHoP (2002).
@Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing, ed. Branko Kolarevic.
@Concrete Design Book on Robustness: International Concrete Design Competition for Students 2003/2004, ed. Siebe Baker.
@Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (1994 [1991]).
@Foreign Office Architects, Phylogenesis: FOA’s Ark (2003).
@Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction (2004).
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Reading List on South Afirca
Fiction and Non-fiction
Recommended by SW’s friends
* highly recommended
Prof. Lindsay Bremner
* Mhlongo, N. (2004). Dog eat Dog. Cape Town: Kwela.
* Mpe, P. (2001). Welcome To Our Hillbrow. Scottsville: University of Natal Press
* Tillim, G. Joburg. (photo essay on hillbrow)
* Vladislavic, I. (2001). The Restless Supermarket. Cape Town: David Philip
* Vladislavic, I. (2004). The Exploded View. Johannesburg: Random House
* Vladislavic, I. (2006). Portrait with Keys.
* Van Niekerk, M. Triomf.
* Bremner, L. (2004). Johannsburg. One City Colliding Worlds. Johannesurg: STE.
Andersson, M. (2002). Bite of the Banshee. Yeoville: STE
Gordimer, N. (1999). The House Gun. London: Bloomsbury
Miller, S. (2004). The Kruger Millions. Cambridge: Vanguard.
Ohler, N. (2003). Ponte City. Claremont: David Philip
Rampolokeng, L. (2004). Blackheart. Bryanston: Pine Slopes.
Sello, K. (2006). The Hidden Star. Roggebaai: Umzuzi
Thembeka, K. (2004). Laduma. Bryanston: Pine Slopes.
Anna Claude
* Aletta J. Norval. The Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse
Doris Lessing. The story of general dann and mara’s daughter, griot and the snow dog
J.M. Coetzee. Waiting For The Barbarians
Alan Paton. Cry, The Beloved Country
Andre Brink. A Dry White Season
Andre Brink. Praying Mantis
Herman Charles Bosman
Harold Strachan
Make a Skyf, Man
Gil Courtemanche. Sunday By the Pool In Kigali
Thorsten Deckler
* Tsitsi Dangaremba. Nervous Conditions
* Bitterkomix
Lewis Nkosi. Underground People
Arthur Maimele. No More Hate
Chris van Wyk. Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
Chinua Achebe. The White Man of God
Chinua Achebe. When Things Fall Apart
Ryzard Kapuchinski. In the Shadow of the Sun
Neal Sachs and Flavio Tedeschi
* R.Malan, My Traitor’s Heart
SW’s discovery
* Jonny Stenberg. Midlands
* Jonny Stenberg. The Number
Richard Calland. Anatomy of SA: Who Holds the Power?
Frank Welsh. A History of South Africa
Recommended by SW’s friends
* highly recommended
Prof. Lindsay Bremner
* Mhlongo, N. (2004). Dog eat Dog. Cape Town: Kwela.
* Mpe, P. (2001). Welcome To Our Hillbrow. Scottsville: University of Natal Press
* Tillim, G. Joburg. (photo essay on hillbrow)
* Vladislavic, I. (2001). The Restless Supermarket. Cape Town: David Philip
* Vladislavic, I. (2004). The Exploded View. Johannesburg: Random House
* Vladislavic, I. (2006). Portrait with Keys.
* Van Niekerk, M. Triomf.
* Bremner, L. (2004). Johannsburg. One City Colliding Worlds. Johannesurg: STE.
Andersson, M. (2002). Bite of the Banshee. Yeoville: STE
Gordimer, N. (1999). The House Gun. London: Bloomsbury
Miller, S. (2004). The Kruger Millions. Cambridge: Vanguard.
Ohler, N. (2003). Ponte City. Claremont: David Philip
Rampolokeng, L. (2004). Blackheart. Bryanston: Pine Slopes.
Sello, K. (2006). The Hidden Star. Roggebaai: Umzuzi
Thembeka, K. (2004). Laduma. Bryanston: Pine Slopes.
Anna Claude
* Aletta J. Norval. The Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse
Doris Lessing. The story of general dann and mara’s daughter, griot and the snow dog
J.M. Coetzee. Waiting For The Barbarians
Alan Paton. Cry, The Beloved Country
Andre Brink. A Dry White Season
Andre Brink. Praying Mantis
Herman Charles Bosman
Harold Strachan
Make a Skyf, Man
Gil Courtemanche. Sunday By the Pool In Kigali
Thorsten Deckler
* Tsitsi Dangaremba. Nervous Conditions
* Bitterkomix
Lewis Nkosi. Underground People
Arthur Maimele. No More Hate
Chris van Wyk. Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
Chinua Achebe. The White Man of God
Chinua Achebe. When Things Fall Apart
Ryzard Kapuchinski. In the Shadow of the Sun
Neal Sachs and Flavio Tedeschi
* R.Malan, My Traitor’s Heart
SW’s discovery
* Jonny Stenberg. Midlands
* Jonny Stenberg. The Number
Richard Calland. Anatomy of SA: Who Holds the Power?
Frank Welsh. A History of South Africa
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