ACHIEVEMENTS AND THE FUTURE THE collaboration between South Africa and The Netherlands in the Housing Generator project has been successful. Community, government, development and academic organizations have worked together over many years to set up the briefs, and participants ranging from students to competing city councils have put vast amounts of effort into tackling the problems. Housing Generator has placed South African housing and urban issues on the agenda of practices and academic institutions, and also within the context of current architectural discourse. Within the competition, there has been a definite international exchange of culture and experience; protocols have been signed between cities; countries, firms and students have competed and generated ideas; exhibitions have crossed the globe; books have been made; and the dissemination of electronic information is manifest. A FEW spin-offs of the project have been that students from South Africa have continued their studies in The Netherlands or have found work with well-known Dutch firms. Some have stayed, others have returned to South Africa. The same has happened the other way around. Five editions of the Generator News were published to inform organizations and individuals about the project's activities and to involve them. The aims and achievements of the Housing Generator project were presented at the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul, as well as at the UIA Conference in Barcelona, both in June 1996. The results of the competition plus a concise background to the Housing Generator project were exhibited at the Kwangju Art Biennale in South Korea in September 1997. An official Housing Generator internet site has been established through the Dutch Union of Local Authorities (VNG). IN the future Housing Generator intends to implement certain winning schemes. The debates on this are under way and it is hoped that political and financial institutions will see the relevance of the ideas that have been generated and finance the further development of these schemes. Its success depends to a large extent on new initiatives and commitments from higher authorities. It is anticipated that the lessons generated and experience gained in the Housing Generator project will further stimulate new initiatives between South Africa and the Netherlands.

[1] Part 1 was written mainly by Harm Tilman. Part 2 was written mainly by Ronald Wall. The literature consulted by the authors includes the following: R. Harber, 'Hopes in Hell?', The Architectural Review, (1995) 1177; D. Dewar, 'The Urban Challenge and Housing in South Africa', in: H. Tilman (ed.), Housing Generator Competition. Overture, Rotterdam 1996; D. M. Smith (ed.), The Apartheid City and Beyond. Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa, London and New York 1992; R. Tomlinson, Urban Development Planning. Lessons for the Economic Reconstruction of South Africa's Cities, Johannesburg, London and New Jersey 1994; P. Kok and D. Gelderblom, Urbanization. South Africa's Challenge, Volume 2: Planning, Pretoria 1994.

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