Main image: Mpho Mokgadi
This month’s cover image comes from UP UP: Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises.
UP UP: Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises
Edited by Nele Dechmann, Fabian Jaggi, Katrin Murbach and Nicola Ruffo/Photographs by Mpho Mokgadi
Fourthwall Books, 2016
About the book:
UP UP: Stories of Johannesburg’s Highrises presents a selection of buildings in the inner city of Johannesburg. The focus here is on tall modernist towers that quickly became iconic in the architecture of the city. Witnesses to profound shifts in the political history of the metropolis, the skyscrapers have themselves endured immense changes. They are documented here in two ways: firstly, through historical facts, floor plans, archival records and contemporary photographs of their formal architecture; and secondly, through reportage, interviews and essays. This book is the first to document Joburg’s skyscrapers and it offers new insights not only into these classic buildings, but also into contemporary urban life in South Africa.
