New article on South Africa’s state architecture
Julia Gallagher’s new article explores how citizens experience the state through seeing and feeling its buildings. She argues that...
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Nov 26, 2021
Batsani-Ncube conducts archival research on African sport governance architecture in Switzerland.
ASA Doctoral Researcher, Innocent Batsani-Ncube recently conducted a week-long archival research on the Confederation of African Football...
Oct 22, 2021
New book on Politics and Architecture
The ASA team is delighted to have signed a contract with James Currey for a new book, Architecture and Politics in Africa: making, living...
Jun 28, 2021
Innocent Batsani-Ncube article published in the Africa Review Journal
Innocent Batsani-Ncube has published an article, ‘Governing from the opposition?’: tracing the impact of EFF’s ‘niche populist politics’...
Feb 22, 2021
Architecture and Politics in Africa
As the ASA project reaches its half-way mark, the team has produced a short film about its research activities. The film explores the...
Oct 13, 2020
[Video] Architecture and politics in Africa: making, living & imagining identities through buildings
Researchers, architects and students from Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Germany, Switzerland the UK and US attended ASA’s...
Jun 17, 2020
Jan 20, 2020
ASA exhibition on state architecture in South Africa
State-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five...
Dec 9, 2019
ASA exhibition on state architecture in South Africa
State-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five...
Dec 9, 2019
Julia Gallagher appointed as Senior Research Fellow at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Julia Gallagher has been appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies, part of the University of...
Nov 25, 2019
STATE-MENTS: a public exhibition about South Africa's state buildings
State-ments is a series of exhibitions in and about South African cities, which explores citizens' perceptions of their diverse and...
Oct 28, 2019
Gallagher appointed specialist advisor to Parliamentary Inquiry
Julia Gallagher has been appointed as specialist advisor for a UK inquiry into UK-Africa relations being carried out by the UK House of...
Aug 27, 2019
Daniel and Gallagher to present at ASA in Boston
Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie and Julia Gallagher will present papers at the annual Africa Studies Association Conference in November 2019 in...
Jun 24, 2019
Properly African: properly a state by Julia Gallagher
South Africans, like other post-colonial societies, face the dilemma of how to replace and yet also reproduce the state. The difficulty...
May 9, 2019
A timid Leviathan by Julia Gallagher
South Africa’s Department for International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) seems to hide from Pretoria, crouching behind a hill, with...
May 8, 2019
Pop-up research in South Africa by Julia Gallagher
We’ve been trialling a new way to engage people in our research – using a clothes horse, a handful of pegs and some photographs of...
Jan 31, 2018
City of Mapungubwe, South Africa
10th - 13th century Nothing remains of the buildings of this iron age city which sat on the meeting of the Shashe and Limpopo Rivers and...
Jan 30, 2018
Ou Raadsaal, Pretoria, South Africa
1891 The Ou Raadsaal, or Old Council Hall, was commissioned by the first president of the Boer Transvaal republic, Paul Kruger, and was...
Jan 29, 2018
Union Building, Pretoria, South Africa
1909 - 1913 Designed by Herbert Baker, one of Britain's most famous colonial architects, the Union Building became the seat of South...
Jan 28, 2018
Johannesburg Police Station, South Africa
1960 This police station was originally named after John Vorster, Minister of Justice and then Prime Minister, the man who created many...
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