The Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism has received a 2020 Studio Prize from Architect Magazine for a studio that investigated the spatial and social implications of mining in South Africa. Carleton University was the only Canadian architecture school among the six winners.
Deep Dust | The Killing Dark was a six-week master?s studio led by Associate Professor Ozayr Saloojee in the winter 2020 term. The 15 second-year MArch students were: Camille Ringrose, Angela Chiesa, Kristen Oyama, Sally El Sayed, Joel Tremblay, Shannon Clark, Vedad Haghighi, Stéphanie Chrétien, Nicholas Bava, Adrian Hong, Tasia Craig, Robin Hoytema, Freed Gomes, Walter Fu, Michael Jaworski.
Architect Magazine states that the ?studio takes Johannesburg, South Africa?s ignominious history as a provocation to explore?through mapping and technical and narrative representation?the spatial and social implications of an extractive terrain. Using drawing as a medium for conceptual and critical inquiry resulted in proposals for a speculative, ethical future for the city?s landscape.?
The course consisted of three projects, each of which asked questions about labor, privilege, wealth, and how these concepts can be investigated through the ground that we walk on, and the architecture.

The second project, Machine Atlas, was modeled on architect Theo Deutinger?s Handbook of Tyranny (Lars Müller Publishers, 2018), which the studio hacked to analyze the tools necessary for extraction landscapes. T...