Convenor: Selection (Coursework Programmes) Coordinator: First year

 

TEACHING

Nico Botes obtained his professional degree in architecture and a master’s degree (by research) at the University of Pretoria and has lectured at the institution since 1997. He formerly coordinated the coursework programmes in interior architecture, and now convenes selection for all undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programmes and coordinates the combined first year design studio. He has been an external examiner at the Port Elizabeth Technikon, Technikon Witwatersrand, Technikon Pretoria, Tshwane University of Technology, University of Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand and the University of the Free State.

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Nico Botes is passionately involved in developing awareness of the three spatial design disciplines, their interdisciplinarity and commonality. He served as Executive Committee member of the Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA), has adjudicated regional awards of merit for the South African Institute of Architects, and has judged national design competitions, including the VISI Designer of the Year, the seventh Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation Prestige Prize in Architecture and the Haute Lumière Award, the latter since its inception. Nico was the founding art editor of Innovate (a biannual faculty magazine).

 

RESEARCH

Nico’s research is closely related to his current academic responsibilities. He is enrolled for a PhD in Architecture at the University of Pretoria under the guidance of Prof. Roger C Fisher. The title of his study is The selection of beginner students for architecture at the University of Pretoria between 1971 and 2016: a critical reflection. His broader interests include interdisciplinary design and design teaching, especially at first year level, vernacular furniture typologies, product design in general, and conservation, especially in urban contexts. He has refereed articles submitted for peer review to Image and Text, the South African Journal of Art History and Architecture South Africa: Journal of the Institute of South African Architects.

 

Publications

  1. Botes, N. 2015. Knocking at the practitioner’s door: Job shadowing and the threshold to the architectural professions. Architecture South Africa, 76, Nov/Des:39-46.
  2. Botes, N. 2012. Towards demystifying the ‘black box’: body as site. South African Journal of Art History, 27(2):121-132.
  3. Botes, N. & Le Roux, S.W. 2011. Uitbeeldings van die melkstoeltjie in kinderlektuur en politieke spotprente. Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Kultuurgeskiedenis, 25(2):1-20.
  4. Botes, R. & Botes, N. 2010. Melktert en ‘pasties de nata’: ’n verkenning. In Festschrift in honour of O.J.O. Ferreira edited by Schalk W. le Roux & Roger C. Fisher, Gordon’s Bay: Adamastor: 179-183.
  5. Botes, N. 2007. Towards an understanding of the vernacular: nineteenth century Boer-made chairs in the collection of the National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria. South African Journal of Art History, 22(2):115-126.
  6. Le Roux, S. & Botes, N. 2007. Number, point and space: the Islamic tradition. De Arte, 75:58-63.
  7. Botes, N. 2006. Amongst the frenziedly outlandish: critique of House Steyn/Kunz, Mooikloof, Pretoria. Architecture South Africa, May/Jun:50-53.
  8. Le Roux, S. & Botes, N. 2005. The Faculty of Law Building, University of Pretoria. Architecture South Africa, Sep/Oct:36-39.
  9. Botes, N. 2003. Text in space. Image and Text, 10:10-13.
  10. Le Roux, S., Fisher, R.C. & Botes, N. 2001. Conservation policy Botshabelo. Johannesburg: SAHRA.
  11. Fisher, R.C. & Botes, N. 2000. Conservation Policy for Mhlamba Ndlophu. Pretoria: DPW & SAHRA.
  12. Erasmus, F., Le Roux, S.W., Fisher, R. & Botes, N. (eds.). 2000. Ermelo, Mpumalanga: preliminary survey for a conservation policy. Pretoria: Report for Ermelo Transitional Council.
  13. Le Roux, S. (red.) & Botes, N. 1993. Plekke en geboue van Pretoria: ’n oorsig van hulle argitektoniese en stedelike belang, Vol. 3. Pretoria: Stadsraad van Pretoria.
  14. Le Roux, S. & Botes, N. 1993. Restourasie: Handves en Praktyk. Architecture South Africa, May/Jun:22-5.
  15. Le Roux, S. (red.) & Botes, N. 1991. Plekke en geboue van Pretoria: ’n oorsig van hulle argitektoniese en stedelike belang, Vol. 2. Pretoria: Stadsraad van Pretoria.

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