Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital

Hilton Judin is architect and director of postgraduate architecture in School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University. He has developed a number of exhibitions, including display of apartheid state documents and public video testimonies [setting apart] with History Workshop in Johannesburg and District Six Museum in Cape Town. He was curator and editor (with Ivan Vladislavic) of blank____ Architecture, apartheid and after for the Netherlands Architecture Institute. He was in practice with Nina Cohen on Nelson Mandela Museum in Mvezo and Qunu, and Living Landscape Project in Clanwilliam. He edited the volume Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid. He is working on the Political Evolution of Community Building, and with History Workshop on the conference and anthology In Whose Place? Confronting the Vestiges of the Colonial Landscape in Africa. He continues with compilation of an Anatomy of Apartheid.