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Item For Us(Witwatersrand University Architecture School, 1962) Jones, Patrick (ed)This exhibition is an expression of our search for a way in which we can, with conviction, face a situation deprived of a centre and a living purpose. In the buildings presented in this exhibition we find the evidence of a way of building that has not lost contact with the basic facts and mysteries of daily life.....The exhibition was more a poslng of a question than a formulatlon of a new vernacular.Item South African Architectural Record(South African Architectural Institute, 1954)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(South African Architectural Institute, 1953)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(South African Architectural Institute, 1952)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(South African Architectural Institute, 1950)South African Architectural RecordItem South African Architectural Record(South African Architectural Institute, 1951)South African Architectural RecordItem Carlton Centre Limited. Statistics and General Information Relating to Carlton Centre(Johannesburg City Coucil, City Engineer., 1970-09-11) Johannesburg PD/MGS/GSFThe promotors of Carlton Centre are the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, Limited and The South African Breweries Limited...The excavation necessary to permit the construction of the below ground levels was one of the largest ever undertaken anywhere in the world for a commercial building project.Item City of Johannesburg. Brief History of the Development of its system of Government(Public Relations Officer, City Hall, P.O.Box 1049, Johannesburg, 1967) Public Relations Office, City Hall, JohannesburgOn 8th September, 1886, Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic, signed a proclamation declaring several farms, including Randjieslaagte, on the Witwatersrand ("Ridge of White Waters") public gold diggings. The biggest gold rush in history began to what was until then a piece of bare veld and rocky outcrop.Item The Faculty of Architecture of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and its role in the community(Faculty of Architecture of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1977) Bryer, MonteThe purpose of this monograph is to report a broad outline of the development of the Wits Faculty of Architecture and its role in the community from its early beginnings a few years after the commencement of this century up to the present time. (1977)This is a brief account of the establishment and growth of the Faculty which appeared in the 1959 issue No.3 and in the Golden Jubilee issue in December 1972 of 'Convocation Commentary', the official magazine of the Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand. There are also historical references to the Faculty's departments of Architecture and Town and Regional Planning in the brochure 'The Golden Jubilee of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg'produced and published by the University's Jubilee Committee in 1972.Furthermore, there are the yearly reports delivered by Professor G E Pearse and, after his retirement in 1947, by his successor Professor J Fassler, at the Annual Exhibition and Prize-giving of the School and, since 1940, of the Faculty of Architecture, which were published in the South African Architectural Record until 1964...Item The John Moffat Building, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg(South African Architectural Institute, 1959-11) WDH