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22 June, 2009 • 10:59 0

Student project: Jouberton Nursery School, South Africa

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A particular highlight from my visit to the University of Nottingham’s School of the Built Environment summer show were panels relating to Noah’s Ark Nursery School in Jouberton (~ 150km south of Johannesburg. South Africa) designed and built by second year undergraduate students at the school. Professor Michael Stacey, of the University of Nottingham, discusses the school in this week’s BD. My understanding is that the nursery represents the first of a new programme of student projects, and I will be following Nottingham’s progress with interest.

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learning architecture is an academic blog of James Benedict Brown, previously a doctoral candidate in architectural pedagogy at the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. James passed his viva in September 2012 and graduated the following December.


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James Benedict Brown has worked and studied in England, Northern Ireland, France, Canada and Sweden. Following the completion of his PhD at QUB in 2012, he held various positions as Tutor, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Programme Leader and Programme Leader at a number of universities, including Norwich University of the Arts, De Montfort University, the University of Nottingham and the Royal College of Art. In 2019 he emigrated to Sweden and assumed the post of Associate Professor at Umeå University School of Architecture. A short bio is here.


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The project is supervised by Prof. Ruth Morrow and Keith McAllister. Prior to his appointment at Qatar University in 2009, Prof. Ashraf Salama also supervised the project.


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