Deon Pretorius Architects

31/01/2025

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Honored to be entrusted with the project of a new private residence in Windhoek. Very pleased with the outcome.

15/02/2023

Interesting article looking at possible incorporation of cigarette butts in the building interesting. Other than the fairly commonly used tyres, sand bags, glass bottles, etc. it makes you think, what else could be recycled or incorporated into the building industry.

Students at RMIT University recently published a study experimenting with adding discarded cigarette butts to clay bricks for architectural use.

08/12/2022

28/11/2022

It’s almost that gift-giving time of the year and if you have an architect in your life, you know that getting them a gift is not the most amazing experience since they are excruciatingly specific – but that’s why we’re here. Now in its 13th consecutive year, Life of an architect is putting ...

15/11/2022

Namibia has a rich tradition of vernacular architecture in the rural areas. It however has not bled through to urban environment and contemporary architecture. While there are a few examples of vernacular influenced design but it has not become mainstream.

Vernacular architecture can be defined as a type of local or regional construction, using traditional materials and resources from the area where the...

07/11/2022

Some very interesting apps. As we strive to minimise the use of paper some of these apps have been pretty useful especially Morpholio Trace and Concepts.

A list of the best architectural applications in 2022 featuring technical drawing and modeling, sketching, construction and management and toolbox Apps

31/10/2022

As we grapple with rising material costs, an ever increasing need to reduce environmental impact and trying to streamline processes by transitioning to being primarily digital, using tools such as Morpholio makes sketching (a vital tool for design and problem solving) bridges the gap between the analog and digital spaces.

I’ve been reinterpreting my workflow from an all-analog process to a (mostly) digital process. The “drawing” I am showing, with all its warty layers, was a real digital conversation done in real-time over a virtual call. New conversation equals a new layer of sketching and notes. I am using Morpholio Trace if you are curious and I am really excited about how transformative this process has become for me. I should probably prepare an update on the website to get into it in more detail.

25/10/2022

''Good architecture responds to the socio-cultural context of its location to promote communal living. Culture closely mimics a community's behavioral patterns that have organically evolved over decades.''

Considering the slow delivery of serviced land in Namibia, increasing the density of existing residential areas will offer a viable option to meet the housing needs of the masses. Understanding the cultural sensitivies of the socio-economic demorgraphic that this solution would service is where the architectural challenge lies.

Socio-culturally respondent architecture in India demonstrates how the local context requires versatility, connectivity, diversity, and flexibility.

24/10/2022

Condsidering the rapidly rising steel prices, is it a matter of time until we see more timber structural elements introduced into Namibian construction industry?

Explore the role of cross laminated timber in the surge of prefabricated wood construction.

10/10/2022

Reusing old buildings could provide a solution to ageing infrastructure in Namibia.

Many had given up hope of ever seeing it brought back into use, but after decades of failed starts, Battersea power station is now, finally, complete

03/10/2022

Happy World Architecture Day from the Deon Pretorius Architects team!

15/09/2022

Beautiful, community and ecologically sensitive deisgn.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize Releases Ceremony Video to honor 2022 Laureate, the Burkinabé architect Francis Kére