Ivor Templer
Head of Department - Academic Planning
B Architecture
Ivor graduated with a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from UCT in 1997 and a Bachelor of Architecture from WITS in 2002. While still a student, Ivor worked with the artist Rodney Place in the production unSUNg CITY, a multi media event launched in conjunction with the Arts Alive Festival in 2000. He joined Greenside Design Center in 2003 and has lectured in the Interior Design department since then. He is now Head of Academic Planning.
In 2007 he organized and participated in Greenside Design Center’s first lecturer exchange programme with the Nottingham Trent University in the UK. This saw Ivor lead a studio project with Nottingham’s 2nd year architectural students where they designed shelters for the taxi rank at Westgate Station in downtown Johannesburg. In return, Greenside Design Center’s 2nd year interior students completed a project with Guillermo Garma Montiel from Nottingham Trent and designed live-and-work spaces in the Sneinton Market area of Nottingham Trent. In this way, the exchange exposed both students and lecturers to the way the other half of the global village lives. As a happy aside, he was able to watch South Africa beat England in the Rugby World Cup Final at the Web Ellis Pub in the town of Rugby.
The same year, Ivor’s own student work was selected for a group exhibition on Johannesburg featuring the work of contemporary South African architects. The exhibition was entitled Post-apartheid Johannesburg, emerging / diverging metropolis and was hosted at the Accademia Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland and was curated by Professor Lindsay Bremner from Wits and Pep Subiros, a visiting professor at the Academia
In 2009 Ivor and Robin Turner presented Greenside Design Center’s proposal to host the 2013 Cumulus Conference to the Cumulus Executive Council in London. Themed around GDC’s 10% project and titled “Design for the other 90%”, the presentation generated substantial interest from the council and leading international design institutions.
In 2007 he organized and participated in Greenside Design Center’s first lecturer exchange programme with the Nottingham Trent University in the UK. This saw Ivor lead a studio project with Nottingham’s 2nd year architectural students where they designed shelters for the taxi rank at Westgate Station in downtown Johannesburg. In return, Greenside Design Center’s 2nd year interior students completed a project with Guillermo Garma Montiel from Nottingham Trent and designed live-and-work spaces in the Sneinton Market area of Nottingham Trent. In this way, the exchange exposed both students and lecturers to the way the other half of the global village lives. As a happy aside, he was able to watch South Africa beat England in the Rugby World Cup Final at the Web Ellis Pub in the town of Rugby.
The same year, Ivor’s own student work was selected for a group exhibition on Johannesburg featuring the work of contemporary South African architects. The exhibition was entitled Post-apartheid Johannesburg, emerging / diverging metropolis and was hosted at the Accademia Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland and was curated by Professor Lindsay Bremner from Wits and Pep Subiros, a visiting professor at the Academia
In 2009 Ivor and Robin Turner presented Greenside Design Center’s proposal to host the 2013 Cumulus Conference to the Cumulus Executive Council in London. Themed around GDC’s 10% project and titled “Design for the other 90%”, the presentation generated substantial interest from the council and leading international design institutions.