Upgrading our Facilities

The Department of Architecture has been situated in the John Moffat Building on the Wits East Campus since 1959. The building is considered a work of Modern Movement heritage. In the mid-1970s, a second building, connected to the John Moffat Building, and called the John Moffat Extension (JME), was built to provide substantially larger studio spaces. As most studios moved out of the John Moffat Building and into the JME, some of the former studio spaces within the historical building were converted to offices and seminar rooms. A further addition to the complex shared between the School of Architecture and Planning and the School of Construction Economics & Management (CEM) was added in the late 2000s, though this building is used almost exclusively by CEM.

In 2022, many of the physical spaces the School would normally use are under renovation, or out of use due to new and ongoing construction. The intention of the construction work is to achieve an

Schematic diagram for the JME renovations