Taking a look at Joburg’s towers and turrets, spires and steeples
This presentation will have you looking at the Johannesburg city scape in new ways
Prof Kathy Munro, an honorary associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, will talk on Johannesburg – towers and turrets, spires and steeples at September 21 meeting of Modderfontein Conservation Society.
The meeting takes place at 7.30pm at 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,” says 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.”
This presentation will have you looking at the Johannesburg city scape in new ways, seeking out the towers and spires of the 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 and is currently the vice chairman of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation.
Visitors are welcome to attend this talk. An entrance fee of R30 is charged to help cover expenses.
For more information, call Keith Martin on 011 608 2864 or 082 450 4003.
