M(Prof) coordinator, Heritage and Cultural Landscapes research field coordinator, archive coordinator and Senior Lecturer

TEACHING

Arthur Barker joined the Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria in 2010, after coordinating the BTech (Applied Design) program for 13 years at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Cape Town. He currently co-ordinates and lectures in the Professional Master’s program while teaching first year construction. He has been an external examiner at the Universities of Cape Town, Free State, Kwa Zulu Natal, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, and the Tshwane, Durban and Cape Peninsula Universities of Technology. In 2016 he served on the Internal Working Group, University of Pretoria, for the Master’s Degree in Tangible Heritage Conservation. He also serves on the University's Document Collection Sub Committee and co-ordinates Design Teaching in the Department

 

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Arthur Barker is a SACAP Validation panellist and has assessed curricula at the Universities of Kwa Zulu Natal, Pretoria, Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Durban University of Technology and the Namibian University of Science and Technology. He serves on the main Committee of the Pretoria Institute of Architects and from 2017 is the chairperson of the Education Committee. He has acted as a panellist for the Namibian Awards of Architecture and Pretoria Institute of Architects Awards in 2015 and was the convener of the Pretoria Institute of Architect's 2017 Award's Panel.

 

RESEARCH

Arthur Barker coordinates the Departmental Research Committee while also co-ordinating the Heritage and Cultural Landscapes research field and the departmental Architectural Archive. He also serves on the editorial board of the South African Journal of Art History (SAJAH). He has reviewed articles for SAJAH, chapters for the book Architectural Conservation in South Africa since 1994: 100+ Projects, papers for the 2015 international Smart and Sustainable Built Environments conference and NRF research proposals. In 2012, he completed his PhD on the domestic architecture of a seminal South African architect, Gawie Fagan, and is currently supervising four PhD students. His main research interest is the architecture of South Africa and, in particular, that of the Fourth Modern Movement. Allied foci are regionalist architectural thinking and the relationship between theory and design thinking. See https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arthur_Barker 

 

 

Publications

  1. Barker, A. 2018. University of Pretoria. In 10 years + 100 projects. Joubert, O & Le Grange, F.(eds), p72-74.
  2. Barker, A. 2017. Modern Movement mediations: Brazilian modernism and the identity of post-war architecture in Pretoria, South Africa. PARANOÁ: Cadernos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo.
  3. Barker, A. 2017. Karl Jooste. In Oliver Elser, Philip Kurz, Peter Cachola Schmal. Eds. SOS BRUTALISM: A Global Survey. Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM and Wüstenrot Foundation.
  4. Barker, A. 2017. Guest editor. 4 contexts that influence architecture. Walls and Floors, 18.7, October/November.
  5. Barker, A. 2016. Ideals and Contingencies. Architecture South Africa, 80, 32-41.
  6. Barker, A., Van Niekerk, K. & Swart, J. 2016. Architectural Archives. Architecture South Africa, 79, 6-9.
  7. Barker, A. 2016. Gabriël Fagan’s 90th Birthday Exhibition. Architecture South Africa, 77, 15-16.
  8. Barker, A. 2015. Architectural colloquialisms. Boukin Journal of Architecture, 1, 60-63.
  9. Barker, A. 2015. Various citations. In Pretoria Institute of Architecture Awards booklet.
  10. Barker, A. 2015. Eighteen articles on Identity, Legacy, Memory and Ethics in South African architecture for FutureSpaces (www.futurespaces.co.za), commissioned by St. Gobain.
  11. Barker, A. 2015. A Mediated Modern Movement: Le Corbusier, South Africa and Gabriël Fagan. South African Journal of Art History, 30(4), 69-89.
  12. Barker, A. 2015. Extending Architectural Regionalism. Architecture South Africa, 74, 19-27.
  13. Barker, A. 2015. B(l)ackground and foreground. Architecture South Africa, 72, 32-35.
  14. Barker, A. 2015. Merit Awards. Namibian Digest of Architecture, 10-13.
  15. Barker, A., Peres, E. & Du Plessis, C. 2015. Architecture for Life: Exploring regenerative and resilience thinking. Architecture South Africa, 71, 40-45.
  16. Barker, A. 2014. Fagan and the vernacular. Vernacular Society of South Africa Journal, 29(6), 1-19.
  17. Barker, A. 2014. The genesis and development of type in NZASM architecture. In: Bakker, A., Fisher, C., and Clarke, N. eds. Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens. A shared Dutch built heritage in South Africa. Visual Books: Pretoria, 111-133.
  18. Hugo, J., Stoffberg, H. & Barker, A. 2014. The carbon footprint and embodied energy of construction material: A comparative analysis of South African BRT stations. Acta Structilia, 21(1), 45-78.
  19. Barker, A. 2013. Craft and intellect: Materiality in the domestic architecture of Gawie Fagan. South African Journal of Art History, 28(2), 1-17.
  20. Barker, A. 2012. Typological form in the architecture of Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan (1925-). South African Journal of Art History, 27(3), 130-171.
  21. Hugo, J., Stoffberg, H. & Barker, A. 2012. A comparative analysis of the carbon footprint and embodied energy of selected South African BRT Stations. Acta Structilia, 19(2), 21-45.
  22. Barker, A. 2012. Cape vernacular interpretations. Architecture South Africa, 57, 36-44.
  23. Barker, A. 2010. Heterotrophic syntheses: Mediation in the domestic architecture of Gabriël Fagan. South African Journal of Art History, 25(1), 14–33.

Lectures, conferences and exhibition openings

 

  1. Barker, A. Award winning Architecture: Integrity or Ignominy? DAS Conference, Pretoria, 2 August 2016
  2. Hugo, J., Stoffberg, H. and Barker, A. 2015. Lowering carbon footprints and embodied energy through innovative design - a Bus Rapid Transit case study. International Smart and Sustainable Built Environment conference, Pretoria. Joint paper presented by co-author Jan Hugo. December.
  3. Barker A, 2015. Opening of 90th birthday exhibition for Gawie Fagan, Cape Institute for Architecture, Cape Town, November.
  4. Barker, A. 2015. Familarity and Strangeness. Invited presentation for Pretoria institute of Architects Ideas Conference, 23 September 2015, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
  5. Barker, A. 2015. New York and Los Angeles. School talk presented at Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria.
  6. Barker, A. 2015. The 4th Cape Vernacular. Invited open lecture presented at University of the Free State, Department of Architecture.
  7. Barker, A. 2013. The architectural dissertation: foundations and approaches at the Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria. Invited lecture presented for Master’s of Architecture program: University of Johannesburg.
  8. Barker, A. 2013. Brazil: Rio and Sao Paulo December 2012. School talk presented at Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria.
  9. Barker, A. 2012. Heterotrophic Syntheses. Invited presentation for Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Department of Architecture open lecture series.
  10. Barker, A. 2012. Invited presentation at the Document your building conference, Pretoria Institute of Architects, 8 November, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
  11. Barker, A. 2010. Heterotrophic syntheses: mediation in the domestic architecture of Gabriel Fagan. South African Journal of Art History conference, 30–31 July 2010, Wits University, Johannesburg.
  12. Barker, A. 2010. Participant in AZA Design Master Class: Re-imagining The Mining Belt. 25-28 September 2010, Johannesburg.
  13. Barker, A. 2009. Energy and Electricity usage in low-income housing in Cape Town. Paper presented at Facilities Management Conference, Cape Town.
  14. Barker, A. 2006. Energy and Electricity usage in low-income housing in Cape Town. Paper presented at South African Housing Foundation conference, Cape Town.
  15. Barker, A. 2005. Energy and Electricity usage in low-income housing in Cape Town. Paper presented at the Solar World Congress, Orlando, Florida.
  16. Barker, A. 2004. A comparative analysis of sustainability in low-income housing. Paper presented at International Housing Conference, Institute of Housing, Cape Town.
  17. Barker, A. 1999. Improving comfort levels in low-income housing in Cape Town, South Africa. Paper presented at PLEA (Passive Low Energy Architecture) Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

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