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Hendricks, Denver | University of Johannesburg |
Denver Hendricks is a lecturer at the Department of Architecture and the founder of the fabrication lab at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, at the University of Johannesburg. He is also the previous head of department for Architecture. He completed studies in architectural technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), before going on to complete his BArch at UCT. He served on the voluntary bodies like SABTACO, Gauteng GIFA. He has 20 years of practice experience in private and public projects. He was a director multiple firms.
His work is noteworthy and reflective because critically publishes both public and conference papers of his work as a mode of practice. He presented a TED Talk on an energy efficiency home and was invited to talk at tertiary intuitions in Leicester, New York, Pescara, and Port Elizabeth about his work.
His academic themes are in community design, socio-economic effects of apartheid spatial planning, design, education, decolonisation technology and curriculum development. He is currently writing a proposal for his PHD on Emerging Technology in Architectural Education.
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