Mr. Leon Krige

Lecturer
Name: Leon Krige
Location: LG024 FADA Building Bunting Road Campus
FADA Architecture Staff  Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 1455

Email: leonk@uj.ac.za

About Mr. Leon Krige

Leon Krige (b. 1962, JHB, South-Africa) studied architecture at the Wits, JHB South-Africa, 1981-86 and Staedelschule Frankfurt, Germany 1987-89.

Research areas:

• Environmental Design as excellence
• Cities in Transformation in electives with shelter prototypes for world cities

He teaches architecture at University of JHB, photographing cities at night as research on urban transformation and people from communities in transformation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flfeSdeQ_hA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEIG9NuQKas

Velo, Fada & Nirox galleries JHB, 2012, JHB FNB art fair 2013 & 2015, 1-54 Art fair Somerset House London 2015, Courtauld Institute East wing, London, 2015, Cape Town & JHB art fair 2016 / 2017, Agog gallery JHB 2016, University of JHB GSA  2017, Solo Gallery Agog 2018, JHB,

ABC architecture museum Haarlem Netherlands 2019, 1st prize PIVOT international urban design photographic competition October 2021, Altered Landscapes, Solo Summa, Nov 2021

Astragallo (Arg)issue 29 Divided Cities, Cover+photo essay+refereed text,

Bauhaus Africa, book chapter 2022

Déjà vu, solo exhibition at Fassler Gallery,

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, April 2024

Belfast Stitched, solo exhibition at Belfast Exposed, Ireland June – Sept 2024. UJ Arts Centre “The Centre cannot Hold” solo exhibition September 2024.