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WORK EXPERIENCE
STUDENT WORK
1996 - 2016
WORK EXPERIENCE
STUDENT WORK
1996 - 2016
'Dieter Brandt is one of a few professional architects who engage the project of architecture in
South Africa with a commitment to furthering its global status. Emerging into the profession on the
cusp of the post-apartheid era, he has managed to establish a coherent and relevant position for himself. His significance resides in his ability to engage contemporary issues and subsequently
create an architectural form that is socially and poetically informed. This position is both
sensitive to the exigencies of a developing context whilst simultaneously relevant and competitive within the larger world and the production of exemplary architecture.'
Professor Iain Low, editor of the Digest of South African Architecture
Professor Iain Low, editor of the Digest of South African Architecture
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Throughout his career, Dieter’s work has been acknowledged by several governing bodies for excellence within the profession. As a student, his thesis was awarded the Iscor Steel Prize, and he was nominated for Istanbul’s Archiprix and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President’s Medals. In addition to an award from the South African Institute of Architecture for the Bay House, Dieter was nominated Designer of the Year for VISI 2011. Freedom Park was shortlisted at The World Architecture Festival in Barcelona and nominated for Most Beautiful Object in South Africa for Design Indaba 2012.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Advanced Environmental Design Initiatives (AEDI), 2018, ongoing
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Design consultancy, freelance, Dieter Brandt, 2000/2017
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Lead Design Consultant for Moiloa Office of Architecture + Design, 2016
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Lead Designer/Project Architect, MMA Architects, South Africa, 2006/2015
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Project Architect for Office of Collaborative Architects (GAPP Architects / Urban
Designers, Mashabane Rose Associates, MMA Architects), South Africa, 2006/2012
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Candidate Architect for Studio Kruger Roos Architects & Urban Designers, South
Africa, 1998, 2003/2005
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Architect Assistant, Klaus Brandt Associated Architects, Namibia, 2000
MOILOA OFFICE OF ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN, 2016
Mmbatho Stadium & Precinct Design, refurbishment & design proposal for a new public
open space Sports & Memorial Precinct, which includes a 40 000-seater soccer stadium as part of the
repositioning and rebranding of the capital Mahikeng, South Africa, lead design consultant for
Moiloa Office of Architecture + Design, 2016
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Mahikeng Hospital, a concept design for a 160-bed hospital, JV MOAD/Geyser Hahn,
lead design consultant for Moiloa of Architecture+Design, South Africa, 2015
MMA DESIGN STUDIO, 2006, 2012/2015
new mathematical sciences building, the University of Witwatersrand, lead
designer/project architect for MMA Design Studio, South Africa, 2012/2014
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Sci-Bono Discovery Centre, new sciences centre, JV MMA/Albonico Sack, JHB, SA,
assistant design architect, 2006
MASHABANE ROSE ASSOCIATES, MMA ARCHITECTS, GAPP ARCHITECTS URBAN DESIGNERS, 2006/2012
Freedom Park Pan African Archive, Archive & Administrative building, Phase 2b, South
Africa, project architect, 2010-2012
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Freedom Park Museum, Phase 2a, South Africa, project architect for Mashabane Rose
Associates, MMA Architects, GAPP Architects Urban Designers
Award of Excellence, for Freedom Park Museum & Pan African Archive, South African Institute
of Architects, 2014
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SAPOA Innovation Award for Heritage, for Freedom Park Museum & Pan African Archive, South
African Property Owners Association, Sun City, 2013
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Saint-Gobain Gyproc National Trophy Award, for Freedom Park Museum & Pan African, South
Africa, 2010
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Southern African Institute of Steel Construction (SAISC) Award, for Freedom Park Museum &
Pan African Archive, Architectural Category, 2010
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World Architecture Festival Barcelona, Completed Buildings cultural category nomination for
Freedom Park Museum & Pan African Archive, 2010
STUDIO KRUGER ROOS ARCHITECTS & URBAN DESIGNERS, 1998, 2003/2005
Bay House, project architect for Studio Kruger Roos Architects and Urban Designers,
South Africa, 2005
Award of Merit, South African Institute of Architects, for Bay House, Cape Town, SA, 2006
KLAUS BRANDT ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS, 2000
Namibian Telecoms, Administrative Headquarters, assistant architect for Klaus Brandt
Associated Architects, Namibia, 2000
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Namibian Telecoms, Administrative Headquarters, Windhoek, Namibia, Architect
Assistant, 2000
Award of Merit, from the Namibia Institute of Architects, for the Namibian Telecom
Headquarters, 2000
COMPETITIONS
Parktown Girls High School, auditorium, and science laboratories competition
(winner), lead designer, South Africa, 2012
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Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, library competition (placed second), new
resource library, lead designer, Rwanda, 2010
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World Bank Competition, Massospondylus Natural History Experience Museum, Golden
Gate, SA, placed second, lead designer, 2007
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Team designer (candidate architect), for BP Headquarter Competition, British
Petroleum South African Headquarters, winner, Cape Town, SA, 2003
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Des Baker National Student Competition, for 'District Six Heritage Design Precinct
Project', honourable mention, 1999
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Lifelong Independence Association Student Competition, for, 'Mobility Home for the
Disabled', winner, 1999
EXTERNAL EXAMINER/STUDIO MASTER
prototype, architectures of resilience, postgraduate supervision of master's
students, Technische Universitat Berlin, 2020/2021
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Technische Universitat Berlin, Architecture Design Innovation Program (São Paulo,
Johannesburg, Tokyo), ADIP, 2017
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University of Pretoria, masters final exams, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
ACADEMIC PRIZES, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
President's Medal, UCT Nomination for, 'Locating Displacement – Representing
Difference', Royal Institute of Architects, London, 2003
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Hunter Douglas Award, UCT Nomination for, 'Locating Displacement – Representing
Difference', ArchiPrix International, for Worlds Best Student Projects, Istanbul, 2003
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Iscor Steel Prize, Major Project, 'Locating Displacement-Representing Difference',
2002
ACADEMIC PRIZES, CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Cape of Good Hope Bank Prize for Best Major Project with a 'Vision for a Future
District Six', 1999
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South African Housing Prize, for the 'Best Affordable Housing Project', 1999
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Distinction for Major Project, 'East City Street Shelter', 1999
‘I have fully enjoyed the breadth and scope of his thinking as he has sought to place his own identity and history in its rightful context whilst remaining fully aware of the contradictions that his position embodies and the opportunities it presents. His approach to architecture has always been of a highly inter-disciplinary nature and his interests have ranged far and wide, engaging with the built environment at a number of different scales’
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Dr. Lesley Lokko, Founder, the African Futures Institute, Accra
Ghana Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architecture Education, RIBA, 2020
VISI Designer of the Year, Finalists, Dieter Brandt and Jeremy Rose
Design Heroes of 2011, VISI, Issue 53
TRANSITION DESIGN
AEDI STUDIO BERLIN, JOHANNESBURG.
AEDI STUDIO BERLIN, JOHANNESBURG.