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🧡🖤 DOA ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT HOODIE DESIGN COMPETITION 🤍**Calling all DOA students!** ✏️📐Here’s your chance to help de...
31/08/2026

🧡🖤 DOA ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT HOODIE DESIGN COMPETITION 🤍

**Calling all DOA students!** ✏️📐

Here’s your chance to help design the **official Architecture Department hoodie**. Create a design that represents our department, our identity and our architectural creativity.

# # # SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

▪️ Submit **3 different hoodie designs**
▪️ Submit **sketches** — hand-drawn or digital
▪️ Designs should adhere to the **UJ standard colours: Orange, Black & White** *(optional but recommended)*
▪️ All designs must be **original**

📅 **Deadline:** 28 September 2026
👥 **Who can enter:** All DOA students
🏆 **Prize:** Lunch for two at **STH Restaurant**

Your design could become part of the identity of the **Department of Architecture**. 🏗️

**DESIGN. THINK. BUILD.**

👇 Quick Question
Would you by a DOA branded Hoodie?✨️

31/08/2026

INDLELA IBUZWA KWABA PHAMBILI | THE DESIGN DEFENCE

And that’s a wrap on Quarter 3!

Our 2nd Year BArch students concluded their site analysis with the first iteration of The Design Defence, presenting and defending the propositions emerging from their collective readings of Siyabuswa Industrial Park.

The format opened up some wonderful moments of debate and negotiation, including two groups arriving at similar propositions and having to quite literally defend their positions.

A huge thank you to the GSA MArch students from Living Narratives II: The Artifact, The Artifice & The Afterlife and Unit 26 who joined us for Unit 26ning. The alignment between their own research interests and the students’ research lenses made for an incredibly valuable exchange. Thank you for your generous questions, critique and insight, we hope the exchange was just as useful as you move towards concluding your own Master’s projects.

We can’t wait to see where our student take their projects in Quarter 4

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Don‘ miss this fine, and FINAL, opportunity, to be a part of a critical public discussion about the future of the , …...
28/08/2026

Don‘ miss this fine, and FINAL, opportunity, to be a part of a critical public discussion about the future of the , … See you there! Saturday, 29 August, 11 am, KEYES ART MILE. With Alexander Opper and a panel of experts and UJ architecture students. Department of Architecture UJ FADA.

Next Monday, the DOA is delighted to host Lecturer and Miss South Africa Top 19 finalist, Sunshine Dlangamandla, for a b...
21/08/2026

Next Monday, the DOA is delighted to host Lecturer and Miss South Africa Top 19 finalist, Sunshine Dlangamandla, for a brown bag school talk exploring the intersection of research, architecture, education and advocacy.
Sunshine will share how her research into language, culture and space has continued to shape the way she understands education — and how these ideas are now finding new expression through her advocacy platform with Miss South Africa.
At the heart of the conversation is a question that sits deeply within architectural education: How can the knowledge we produce in our classrooms, studios and research spaces travel beyond the university and create meaningful change in the world?

Next Monday, our 2nd year Design Studies module welcomes guest lecturer Njabulo Hlophe. Njabulo Hlophe We are excited to...
13/08/2026

Next Monday, our 2nd year Design Studies module welcomes guest lecturer Njabulo Hlophe. Njabulo Hlophe

We are excited to engage his body of work, which reimagines form through fragmentation, layered perspective, and a dynamic exploration of identity and structure.

Following the lecture, our guest will host a portraiture workshop, offering students the opportunity to translate these ideas into their own drawing and making practice.

10/08/2026

The second years had the privilege of exploring Esther Mahlangu’s work🔥🔥🔥🔥

On the 5th and 6th August 2026, we held our second annual Converge and Fabricate Vertical studio, an initiative aimed at...
08/08/2026

On the 5th and 6th August 2026, we held our second annual Converge and Fabricate Vertical studio, an initiative aimed at fostering communication, connection and collaboration amongst our architecture students, across all years👏💐

A huge thanks to our industry suppliers for taking the time to come share their amazing products with our students: Eva-Last® Duravit STIEBEL ELTRON South Africa Plascon ASSA ABLOY TAL South Africa 🇿🇦 Max on Top Cemcrete

A huge thanks also to our visiting architects who also donated their projects iQhayiya Design Workshop Architects and Urban Signature Architects . 👏💐

Another thanks to our Organiser Marina and host Nomalanga_The Ndebele Academic for seeing the event through. Thanks to you it was a success💐👏

A huge thanks to our architecture students as well, for taking time of their busy schedules and participating in this great initiative. Your efforts throughout the 2 days are highly appreciated 👏 💐

Congratulations to our winning teams, who got a variety of prizes including a cash prize, compliments of our various suppliers and Department of Architecture

All in all, this event could not have been possible without the help of everyone who pitched in. A huge thanks once again to all of our participants. Till next year for Converge and Fabricate III

07/08/2026

Day in a life of second year architecture students / Site visit 🔥🔥

We’re excited to welcome Steven Sotiriou from Urban Signature Architects to DoA_Converge 2026. Steven will be joining us...
03/08/2026

We’re excited to welcome Steven Sotiriou from Urban Signature Architects to DoA_Converge 2026.

Steven will be joining us to share his practice, projects and design process, offering our students valuable insight into the realities of architectural practice and the journey from concept to construction. We look forward to an engaging conversation and the opportunity for our students to learn directly from industry.





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