PETER RICH: LEARNT IN TRANSLATION

NOW SHOWING 

Peter Rich, 23rd Sophia Gray Laureate, will be opening the 2011 Sophia Gray Exhibition in Durban on the evening of Wednesday 14th September. He will be giving his accompanying Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture at the KZNIA and UKZN-hosted Education Conference to take place the following day. The KZNIA is thrilled to host this multi-media exhibition tracing the development of Peter's work to date.

The exhibition will take over the entire main gallery space of the KZNSA as well as the multimedia room, and will include drawings, models and photographs of completed projects, as well as design development sketches enabling visitors to gain an understanding of the thinking underpinning the projects. Displayed alongside the architectural works are the influences that have shaped Peter and his architecture: his beautiful travel sketches from around the world, his extensive research into space-making in Ndebele architecture and examples of African art.

Exhibition opening night: Wednesday 14th September

The exhibition, hosted by the KZNIA, was opened by Andrew Makin and Andries Botha on Wednesdat 14th September. 
The exhibition will run until October 1st.
The KZNSA Gallery is open from 9am to 5pm Tuesdays - Sundays.

PETER RICH

Peter Rich is the principle of Peter Rich Architects and a founding partner of Light Earth Designs LLP, a collaboration set up to develop a unique soil-tiled vaulting technology.

In 2009, Peter Rich Architects won the award for the World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Forum in Barcelona. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2010, and his lifetime contribution to architecture was recognised in the same year with a South African Institute of Architects Gold Medal, the highest honour bestowed by the profession on a South African architect.

A house is not a home unless it’s a village

Peter Rich’s distinctive body of work is testament to a lifetime of commitment to the creation of a uniquely African architecture. He has been a pioneer in the documentation of the spatial and aesthetic elements of African tribal settlements and developed an architectural vocabulary that fuses Modernist principles with local tribal convention and sensitivity to material and environment. His practice is distinguished by a deep understanding of context achieved through sustained research into local conditions and close collaboration with communities.

Peter has balanced architectural production with teaching and cultural study, helping to make a significant contribution to the education of an audience for architecture that extends beyond practitioners and academics, and to the empowerment of a younger generation of architects.

The exhibition has been made possible through the generous contributions of

Hydraform brick and block machines,

Modena, SA's largest Autodesk retailer,

Hulamin Building Systems,

OWA Celiing Systems and

SAFAL Steel.