Blank: Architecture, Apartheid, and After

by Ivan Vladislavić

The exhibition ‘blank-Architecture. Apartheid and after’ was a travelling exhibition. It was produced by the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in 1998-99. This exhibition presented the results of the research of the history of South-African architecture and urban planning and development during and after the Apartheid. The research was done by the South African philosopher and architect Hilton Judin in cooperation with a team of sixty architects, photographers, filmmakers, and writers. The exhibition was part of the Rotterdam manifestation ‘South African Seasons’ on culture, architecture, and urban development. The manifestation was closed by a conference on architecture and ethics. Then the exhibition took place in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and in Museum Africa in Johannesburg from July till December 2000. An education programme for students accompanied the exhibition. The exhibition and the reports of the research have been handed over to South Africa by

447 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Ivan Vladislavić is a novelist, essayist and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories; The Loss Library, a reflection on writing; and 101 Detectives, a collection of new short stories. He has edited volumes on architecture and art. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction by Yale University.