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The Influencers’ Influences EARTHWORLD ARCHITECTS

While Braam de Villiers and André Eksteen were earning their degrees at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Architecture in the mid-1990s, the concept of sustainable architecture was virtually unheard of. Yet André vividly remembers one of their lecturers, Dr Dieter Holm, insisting that his students heed the warnings of the environmental NGO Club of

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