End of Year Exhibition & Corobrik Awards

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Join Wits SoAP on the 28th of November for the End of Year School Exhibition and the Masters in Architecture (Professional) Corobrik Awards. 

Are you looking to employ a year-out BAS or M.Arch Prof graduate?
Come and meet the students and see their work from 15.15 at the Meet and Greet session!

Programme:
15:15 - Meet and Greet (Practitioners and Students)!
The M.Arch Prof and Third Year Bachelor of Architecture students will be available to discuss projects with practitioners and potential employers
(Venue: John Moffat Extension, New Atrium and Stair)
16:00 - Opening Address by the Head of School, Professor Nnamdi Elleh: "Seeking African Architectural Heritage"
16:30 - Corobrik Award Ceremony and Announcements
16.45 - Curators' Address and Exhibitions open!
(Venue: John Moffat Building, A1 Auditorium)

Work from several years and degree programmes will be on show throughout the John Moffat Building and the Extension, including:

- [untitled] 42 narratives: Master’s in Architecture (Professional) Exhibition;
- 'The Collective Desk: Making Visible': Third-Year Exhibition;
- Resonant Spaces: A Collaborative Music Performance and Installation between the Second-Year Electives and Third-Year Music Composition students;
- Master of Urban Design Exhibition;
- and the BAS Honours Exhibition.

There is no need to RSVP. For Enquiries please email: media.soap@wits.ac.za

This event carries 0.3 CAT 1 CPD Points (SACAP). 

Wits Architecture Masters Exhibition 2025

Un[titled] resists categorisation, reflecting the open-ended nature of architectural inquiry. Architecture rarely begins from a blank page. It unfolds within existing landscapes; cultural, ecological, and material. 

Un[titled] presents the work of the 2025 Master of Architecture students whose projects engage critically with these conditions. Each project proposes a fragment of a larger conversation about place-making, about value, about the shifting role of the architect. 
Un[titled] invites viewers to read between drawings and models to encounter architecture as a process of thought: evolving, critical, and alive. 

The absence of a fixed title signals a shared pursuit of openness, allowing each student to define their own title and position within their chosen field of interest; a collective reflection on architecture as both discipline and dialogue.

#OnTheHighestLevel #Online #WitsMArch2025 #WitsUniversity #WitsArchitecture

Third Year Exhibition: The Collective Desk - Making Visible

Our theme, 'The Collective Desk', reflects the spirit of a group who have learned, grown and created together through the intensity of architectural education. More than just a piece of furniture, the desk becomes a metaphor for collaboration, support, and shared resilience. It is the surface where ideas took shape, coffee cups gathered, and long nights turned into community.

The Collective Desk reminds us that architecture is never a solo act, but rather a shared one, because together, we build more than structures.

#TheCollectiveDesk #MakingVisible #WitsBASExhibition

Resonant Spaces: A Collaborative Music Performance and Installation between The Second-Year Electives and Third-Year Music Composition Students

This body of work emerged from the ARTSCI4Innovation Artist-in-Lab residencies at the Wits Innovation Centre and the Wits School of Arts, a program that fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration and challenges the habitual ways of knowing within individual disciplines. Within this context, Warrick Swinney (Sony),composer, producer, and sound artist, taught the second-year elective Echoes in a Soundless Room in collaboration with Atmospheres of Awe in the School of Architecture, which in turn led to further collaboration with the Music Department at the Wits School of Arts.

In these electives, design thinking is expanded beyond the traditional scope of drawing and into the sensory domain. Sony introduced architecture students to sound as a critical design element, teaching the fundamentals of acoustics and acousmatic composition inspired by post-war musique concrète.

The collaboration extended through nine  third-year composer–performers from the Music department, who created live works in response to four selected architectural installations. Together, these projects explore the reciprocal relationship between sound and the resonant spaces in which it is perceived.

Architecture students' sculptural and sonic works, inspired by specific sites within the School of Architecture, were relocated into this exhibition space for the way their resonances overlap and blend. The exhibition opens with live performances that engage the recorded sound; thereafter, these performances continue as part of an integrated soundscape, allowing the echo of this interdisciplinary dialogue to continue resonating within the space.