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| Lindsay Bremner |
Professor |
| bremnerl(at)temple.edu |
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| D.Sc. Arch., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| M.Arch., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| B.Arch., University of Cape Town |
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Bio |
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Lindsay Bremner is a former chair of architecture of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She was in political office in Johannesburg between 1993 and 1997, and has lectured and published widely on Johannesburg, including the book Johannesburg: One City, Colliding Worlds (2004). She is an award winning architect, most recently for her project for the rebuilding of the Sans Souci Cinema in Kliptown Soweto (with 26’10 South Architects). She contributed to the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale in 2005, the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006 and was co-curator of exhibition Johannesburg Emerging / Diverging Metropolis at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio in 2007. Her work is concerned with questions of architecture, culture and geopolitics in a globalizing world. |
Research |
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Prizes, Awards, and Grants |
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Loeb Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2006. |
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South African National Research Foundation Globalisation Focus Area Grant for “Sites and Architectures of Johannesburg’s Global Citiness”, 2005. |
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South African National Research Foundation Distinct South African Opportunities Focus Area Grant for “Native Lands”, 2005. |
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Institute of South African Architects Project Award for the project to rebuild the Sans Souci Cinema in Kliptown, Soweto, with 26’10 south Architects, 2005. |
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Sunday Times Bessie Head Fellowship Award, 2001. |
Publications |
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Bremner, Lindsay. “Reframing Township Space.” In Johannesburg - The Elusive Metropolis, edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe, 337-347. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. |
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Bremner, Lindsay. “Recovering from Apartheid.” In The Endless City,edited by Ricky Burdett and Dejan Sudjic, 202-213. London: Phaidon, 2008. |
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Bremner, Lindsay. “Memory, Identity and the Post apartheid City : The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.” In Desire Lines; Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City, edited by Noeleen Murray, Nick Shepherd and Martin Hall, 85-103. London: Routledge, 2007. |
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Bremner, Lindsay. “Making Life Public in Contemporary Johannesburg.” In Johannesburg Emerging / Diverging Metropolis, edited by Lindsay Bremner and Pep Subiros, 18-25. Mendrisio: Mendrisio Academy Press, 2007. |
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Bremner, Lindsay. “Johannesburg City Portrait.” In: Cities Architecture and Society. Exhibition Catalogue of the 10th International Venice Architecture Biennale, 168-177. Venice: Fundazione La Biennale di Venezia, 2006. |
Competitions |
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Runner up in the Freedom Square Architectural Design Competition, with Mashabane Rose Architects, 2002. |
Exhibitions |
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Co-curator, with Pep Subiros of Johannesburg Emerging / Diverging Metropolis. Accadamia di Architettura, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland, April 3 – May 10 2007. |
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Collaborator with Ricky Burdett on the Johannesburg exhibit at the Cities, Architecture and Society Exhibition, Venice Architecture Biennale, Sept 10 – Nov 19 2006. |
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Curator of Joburg Fictions, collaborative student exhibition with the Wits School of Art, Johannesburg, June 2 – 9 2006. |
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Curator of Liquid Durban, South African contribution to the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, May 26 – June 26 2005. |
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Curator of Splintering Urbanisms, Frontier Architectures, student exhibition on residential enclaves, Johannesburg, Nov / Dec 2004. |
| Lectures, Workshops, and Charrettes |
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Talk 20, Philadelphia, Feb 2008 |
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“Citiness and Literariness.” 2nd Architecture Dejeneur, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia Nov 7 2007. |
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“The Global Urban Context.” Urban Age Conference, Mumbai, Nov 2,3 2007. |
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“interventions.” Evasions of Power, Penn Design, Slought Foundation and Goldsmiths Centre for Architectural Research, Philadelphia March 30,31 2007. |
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“Ruination, Nomadism and Fear.” Columbia University Urban Planning Program, March 26 2007. |
| Professional Practice |
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In private practice as Lindsay Bremner Architect, Johannesburg South Africa, 2005/2006. |
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Projects: Redevelopment of the Sans Souci Cinema, Kliptown, Soweto (with 26’10 south Architects); Extension to The Premises Gallery, Johannesburg Civic Theatre; Refurbishment of the Wits Television Division; House Lenahan; House Laufer (alterations and additions) |
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Member of consortium awarded the tender for the Braamfontein Regeneration Project – Urban Design and Upgrade of the Public Environment in Braamfontein by the Johannesburg Development Agency, 2002. |
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Freedom Square Architectural Design Competition, with Mashabane Rose Architects, June 2002. |
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Yale Road Upgrade, University of the Witwatersrand, architect for the new bus stops, 2001. |
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