Housing Generator revisited

The Housing Generator project was developed in 1996 by the Rotterdam Architectural Academy in cooperation with the Urban Sector Network of the University of Natal. The central theme of the Housing Generator was low-cost housing and its possible role in the South African city. A competition was organised on this theme by three locations in Durban, East London and Benoni (Johannesburg).

Almost ten years after the Housing Generator competition for South African cities, Jeroen Mensink visited Barbara Southworth, prize-winner for the Cato Manor (Durban) location and now director of the Department of City Spatial Development & Urban Design in Cape Town. His report can be read on Archined: www.archined.nl

For more information on the original housing generator project, see: www.africaserver.nl