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UCT Research Report '11
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School Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff
Professors
5
Associate Professors
4
Senior Lecturers
8
Lecturers
8
Technical Support Staff
9
Administrative Staff
8
Total
42
Students
Doctoral
8
Master’s
90
Honours
41
Undergraduates
323
Total
462
Research Fields and Staff
Dr Mahmoud AbdEl-Gelil
Senior Lecturer: Geomatics
Gravity data analysis, GPS, Geodesy and geophysics.
Francis Carter
Senior Lecturer: Architecture
Curriculum theory in relation to undergraduate built
environment design programmes; theories of making, with
reference to contemporary South African architecture;
programming for new knowledge space.
Associate Professor Nicholas Coetzer
Architecture
Architectural design; contemporary architectural history
and theory; digital technology.
Albertrum Crowder
Lecturer: Architecture
Specializes in the area of cultural heritage conservation.
His research focuses on the inherent values that people
associate with their environment and the possibility for this
to help promote sustainable cultural heritage conservation
and development.
Kevin Fellingham
Senior Lecturer: Architecture
Interdisciplinary research, practice and design.
Clinton Hindes
Senior lecturer: Landscape Architecture
History and theory of landscape architectural design and
its application to teaching and practice. Documenting the
history of South African landscape architecture.
Simon Hull
Lecturer: Geomatics
Digital photogrammetry for heritage documentation, fields
of land tenure reform, disaster management using remote
sensing and GIS, heritage documentation, and improving
education.
Fadly Isaacs
Lecturer: Architecture
(Measuring) urban settlement quality, integrating strategic
urban infrastructure investment.
Tania Katzschner
Lecturer: Planning
Education for sustainable development, sustainable urban
systems, creating and nurturing educational systems that
serves human needs while also protecting our resources for
future generations, trans-disciplinarity and systems thinking.
Simone le Grange
Lecturer: Architecture
Architectural design, Academic Development Lecturer.
Mike Louw
Lecturer: Architecture
Sustainable architecture and urbanism, architectural
history and materiality.
Professor Iain Low
Architecture
Space and transformation; critical thinking / practice
and the ‘re-writing’ of architectural type; post apartheid
South African condition: urbanism, the ‘new’ public realm,
contemporary dwelling and architectural pedagogy.
Liana Muller
Lecturer: Landscape Architecture
Heritage and management of cultural landscapes, heritage
landscapes and representation, specifically focussing on
people’s connection with the environment and landscape
as an anchoring point for memory and meaning.
Professor Jo Noero
Architecture.
Dr Nancy Odendaal
Senior Lecturer: Planning
Relationship between Information and Communication
Technology and urban transformation, metropolitan
planning, planning theory and infrastructural transitions
in cities of the Global South. Commissioned research on
planning and transformation, land use management and
planning standards.
Stella Papanicolaou
Lecturer: Design, the tension between meaning and
the production of space in architectural practice and
education; developing tools for critical thinking to enhance
the creative process in architectural education.