Top speaker for Heritage Month meeting

The Modderfontein Conservation Society will host Prof Kathy Munro at its September evening meeting.

Munro is an honorary associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Her will talk on Johannesburg – Towers and Turrets, Spires and Steeples.

The meeting will take place at 7.30pm on September 21 at the Modderfontein Town Hall at 1 Casino Road.

“Johannesburg started as a mining camp but quickly created a city-scape of unusual, practical, useful and sometimes fanciful architecture,” said Munro.

“Towers and turrets, spires and steeples appear in many different types of buildings in our city – churches, mosques synagogues, schools, business properties, water towers, communications towers apartment blocks and in domestic residential architecture,” she said

This presentation will have you looking at the Johannesburg city scape in new ways, seeking out the towers and spires of our city and asking why they are there and what they reveal about the evolution of the city of Johannesburg.

In addition to being a book reviewer and regular contributor to The Heritage Portal website, Munro is researching the architect Hermann Kallenbach.

She is currently the vice chairman of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation.

Visitors are welcome to attend this talk.

For more information, call Keith Martin on 011 608 2864 or 082 450 4003.

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