The Architectural Guide South Africa (Fisher, R.C. and Clarke, N.J. 2014, Berlin: Dom Verlag) was awarded an Award of Merit by the South African Institute of Architects. The biennial award was made public during the Corobrik SAIA awards ceremony, held in Johannesburg on 2 September 2016. This national accolade was preceded by a 2015 Gauteng Institute of Architects GIfA Award.

The authors, Roger C Fisher and Nicholas J Clarke, are both South African architects and academics. They chose to limit the focus of the book–which as a guidebook had to be compact–to the four large cities of South Africa and to present architecture that exemplifies the various stages in the architectural history of the country. Invited authors, one from each of the cities, contributed a personal essay on ‘their cities’.

The Architectural Guide South Africa is a publication of the Berlin-based Dom Publishers. It forms part of their well-known international series of architectural guides. The book’s publication was planned to coincide with the 2014 UIA, International Union of Architects, conference, held in Durban, South Africa.

Roger Fisher is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria.

Nicholas Clarke is a former lecturer and current Heritage Studies Associate at the same department and also part-time lecturer and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

The Architectural Guide South Africa is available from on-line booksellers and the publishers website: http://www.dom-publishers.com/products/en/Architectural-Guides/South-Africa- Architectural-Guide.html?XTCsid=1e28739cab9314b90aa0a788e1fa385a

Contact details:

Nicholas Clarke

Email: [email protected]