Contemporary South African Architecture in a Landscape of Transition presents, and celebrates, more than fifty of the best works of architecture built in the years of democracy since 1994. From public buildings and private residences to business headquarters and educational centres, all have contributed to the new sense of cultural identity in this country and reveal the potential of our cityscapes to amaze and astound.

Mr F.K. Kendall, Chairman of the Council of the National Society, who had been for months engaged on behalf of the Government of the Union in directing and supervising the difficult task of sympathetically restoring Groot Constantia, - one of the most valuable architectural treasures of the seventeenth century we possess - had, with commendable public spirit, decided to compile and publish a description of his work, called The Restoration Of Groot Constantia, including a sketch of the history of the building, illustrated by photographs and diagrams.

Just as we come to talk about distinctive styles of urban architecture in Europe and North America – such as Chicago Style – so Clive Chipkin argues that Johannesburg has evolved a recognisable style or procession of styles that are as interesting and deserving of serious consideration as those of other major cities of the world. Like Chicago, too, Johannesburg was a progeny of nineteenth-century industrial society, and its history is the story of its development as an industrial metropolis tied to the world market.

Architect Stanley Saitowitz has designed a great number of projects that share the qualities of early modern architecture: they are unassuming, simple, honest, anti-classical, anti-elite. Inspired by the seminal works of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Giuseppe Terragni, Saitowitz has developed an approach he calls "human geography," an attitude that is carefully cognizant of the relationship between architecture and setting. This monograph, the first on Stanley Saitowitz Office, presents fifty projects from more than thirty years of practice.