This yearbook is a collection of architectural design projects from second year Bachelor of architecture students at the university of Johannesburg in 2020. The studio was Lead by Jabu A Makhubu and assisted by Nomalanga Mahlangu and Mxolisi Ntshona. The year long design studio was themed along notions and questions of Politics of Public Architecture. Our aim was to unpack through the study of and design propositions of civic spaces the relationship architecture has with politics in our context. Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns and protest have shifted our pedagogy in unpredictable and unprecedented ways. For the first time we ran the course online, something that is not the norm for architectural studies. Here is to a the year of the "new normal" 2020!
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