The Corobrik-SAIA Awards of Merit and Awards for Excellence in Architecture

摘要

The Corobrik-SAIA Awards of Merit and Awards for Excellence 2010 were presented recently at a ceremony at the City Hall in Johannesburg, as part of the architectural festival AZA 2010. At the same occasion, the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) presented the first Honorary Fellowship of the Institute to architect Vassilis Sgoutas who was in Johannesburg at the invitation of the SAIA to participate in AZA 2010. Sgoutas, a former president of the International Union of Architects (UIA), lives and practices in Greece but is a long-time friend of South Africa, having graduated at the University of Cape Town. Sgoutas played an instrumental role in South Africa's winning the bid to host the 2014 UIA Congress in Durban.