Interior Architecture programme coordinator, MInt(Prof) and BIntHons coordinator, Postgraduate Studies by Research coordinator

TEACHING

Barbara Paulina Jekot joined the Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria in 2005, after contributing to architectural programmes at the University of Natal in Durban for 13 years and at the University of Silesia for 6 years. She currently co-ordinates and lectures in the Professional Master's in Interior Architecture and Honours program in Interior Architecture. She teaches Material Studies in the undergraduate program. She has been an external examiner at the Universities of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Cape Peninsula as well as the Greenside Design Centre/College & School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. She was a guest professor of the Mundus Urbano Program at the universities of Darmstadt, Germany and Pierre Mendes (UPMF), Grenoble, France.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Barbara Jekot has been a SACAP validation panellist and has assessed curricula at the Universities of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan, Free State and Tshwane. She has been a UIA (International Union of Architects) validation panellist and vice chair assessing curricula in architecture and interior architecture at the American University in Cairo and University of Cairo, Egypt. She served as a panellist for the SAIA Limpopo Awards of Architecture.

RESEARCH

Barbara Jekot co-ordinates Postgraduate Studies by Research application enquiries. She serves on editorial boards. She has published internationally and presented papers at conferences widely in Europe, America, Australia and Africa. Her research interest is in Environment Potential as well as Heritage and Cultural Landscapes. Her specific concerns are relations between technology and other elements of culture, investigations into nature-inspired innovations, prototyping, and ceramics.

Publications

  1. Jekot, B.P. 2015. The multiple faces of: inspiration, domination and identity – African bites of Modernism. In: Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia: 20th Century Architecture until the 1960s and its Preservation. Gdynia: Gdynia Monuments Protection Office.Jekot, B.P. 1992. Returning to good old patterns. Proceedings: International Symposium on Design Review, Cincinnati, USA.
  2. Jekot, B.P. 2013. Ethics stimulating aesthetics: environmental considerations stimulating imagination - the art of incorporating renewal energy resources into architecture/built environment. Proceedings: 7th WEEC (World Environmental Education Congress), Marrakech, Morocco.
  3. Jekot, B.P. 2012. Selected study of architectural envelopes controlling sun radiation – the integration of nature into design. Proceedings: Sustainability Through Biomimicry International Conference, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 89-102.
  4. Jekot, B. 2011. The multiple faces of inspiration, domination & identity: African bites of Modernism. In: On Modernism in Europe - Modernism in Gdynia. Gdynia: Urzad Miasta Gdyni, 71-77.
  5. Jekot, B.P. 2011. Conservation of Modernism in Africa: Assessing cultural resources and benefits when negotiating criteria. Conservation of Architecture, Urban Areas, Nature and Landscape: Towards a Sustainable Survival of Cultural Landscape, Amman, Jordan, Vol.2, 357-368.
  6. Jekot, B.P. 2010. Colour and light as identity and cultural diversity – deliberate applications of colour and light in various environments and cultures. Proceedings: Colour and Light in Architecture, Venice, Italy.
  7. Jekot, B.P. 2010. The integration of the underdeveloped and developed technologies in Southern Africa. Proceedings: 14th International Passive House Conference, Dresden, Germany.
  8. Jekot, B.P. 2010. Eastern influences in Western Modernism – multiple faces of International Style. Proceedings: ACAH (Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities) and ACSS (Asian Conference on the Social Sciences), Osaka, Japan, 54-56.
  9. Jekot, B.P. 2010. Review of changes in ceramic tile installation in South Africa. Proceedings: QUALICER 2010 – 11th World Congress on Ceramic Tile Quality, Castellon, Spain.
  10. Jekot, B.P. 2009. The intersection of ‘third’ and ‘first world’ establishing the identity of South African architecture- the inclusion of the ‘underdeveloped’ in ‘developed’ technologies in the age of globalization. Proceedings: International Conference on Multiple Faces of Identity, Nottingham, UK.
  11. Jekot, B.P. 2008. Selected study of architectural envelopes controlling sun radiation – the integration of nature into design. South African Journal of Art History, 23(3), 56-65.
  12. Jekot, B.P. 2008. Reinterpreting public places and spaces: a selection of Krzysztof Wodiczko’s public artwork. South African Journal of Art History, 23(1), 33-44.
  13. Jekot, B.P. 2008. Sensitivity to site and the nature of materials – Southern African architectural design. Proceedings: International Conference on Design and Nature, Wessex Institute of Technology, Algarve, Portugal.
  14. Jekot, B.P. 2007. Southern African identity and reality. Proceedings: International Conference on Material of Identity and Globalization, CSAAR Tunis, Tunisia.
  15. Jekot, B.P. 2007. Selective sample of the mainstream Western perception of beauty as category in architecture – tracing physical beauty connected with mind, emotions and spirit. South African Journal of Art History, 22(3), 138-149.
  16. Jekot, B.P. 2007. The coexistence of the ‘third’ and ‘first’ world in South African architecture: the inclusion of the ‘underdeveloped’ in ‘developed’ technologies in the age of globalisation. South African Journal of Art History, 22(2), 66-78.
  17. Jekot, B.P. 2006. South African architectural identity – space, place, fabric & expression. Architektura series Czasopismo Techniczne. ISSN 0011-4561, Z. 9-A.
  18. Jekot, B.P. 2002. Ceramic façade providing environmental control – ceramic solar screen of the Durban Netherlands Bank. Proceedings: QUALICER 2002 - VII World Congress on Ceramic Tile Quality, Castellon, Spain.
  19. Jekot, B.P. 1998. From Africa to Africa via Europe – cultural diversity of South African cities. Proceedings: International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Cultural Processes - City and Culture, Stockholm, Sweden.
  20. Jekot, B.P. & Hardman, T. 1997. eThusini – Natal School of Architecture. Architecture South Africa, Jan/Feb, 13-20.
  21. Jekot, B.P. 1997. European and African transformations. Proceedings: ‘Other Connections’ – International Conference on Building Dwelling Drifting - Migrancy and the Limits of Architecture, Australia.
  22. Jekot, B.P. 1994. Co-ordination of formal and informal activities creating public spaces. Proceedings: International Symposium on People, Place & Development, Newcastle, UK.

Copyright © University of Pretoria 2024. All rights reserved.

COVID-19 Corona Virus South African Resource Portal

To contact the University during the COVID-19 lockdown, please send an email to [email protected]

FAQ's Email Us Virtual Campus Share Cookie Preferences