Urban-Think Tank


Urban-Think Tank is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design on a variety of subjects, concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism.



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We’re thinking about SLUM Lab these days. A brand new issue is coming out this summer on all things urban-Asia. Stay tuned for more details about the launch party and how to pick up a free copy.

May 15
We’re thinking about SLUM Lab these days. A brand new issue is coming out this summer on all things urban-Asia. Stay tuned for more details about the launch party and how to pick up a free copy.

Thanks for the opportunity to speak this past week at CLEFA San José. Fue muy divertido!

Apr 26
Thanks for the opportunity to speak this past week at CLEFA San José. Fue muy divertido!

U-TT will be delivering a lecture at the International General Assembly of Architects Sans Frontiéres.

Apr 13

We are honored to announce our selection and participation in the 2012 Audi Urban Future Initiative. Stay tuned for news as we progress in this research project.

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Mar 21
We are honored to announce our selection and participation in the 2012 Audi Urban Future Initiative. Stay tuned for news as we progress in this research project.
Click on the photo above for more information.

We recently did an extended radio interview on Cape Town’s Jenny Crwys-Williams Show. It was a fantastic, 45-minute long dialogue between us, Jenny and Jo Noero of the Noero-Wolff architecture firm. 

Mar 21

Lecture at Wits Univ. in JoBurg. March 6th, 2012.

Mar 21
Lecture at Wits Univ. in JoBurg. March 6th, 2012.
We’re thinking about SLUM Lab these days. A brand new issue is coming out this summer on all things urban-Asia. Stay tuned for more details about the launch party and how to pick up a free copy.
We’re thinking about SLUM Lab these days. A brand new issue is coming out this summer on all things urban-Asia. Stay tuned for more details about the launch party and how to pick up a free copy.

We’re thinking about SLUM Lab these days. A brand new issue is coming out this summer on all things urban-Asia. Stay tuned for more details about the launch party and how to pick up a free copy.

Thanks for the opportunity to speak this past week at CLEFA San José. Fue muy divertido!
Thanks for the opportunity to speak this past week at CLEFA San José. Fue muy divertido!

Thanks for the opportunity to speak this past week at CLEFA San José. Fue muy divertido!

U-TT at Architects Without Borders

U-TT will be delivering a lecture at the International General Assembly of Architects Sans Frontiéres.

We are honored to announce our selection and participation in the 2012 Audi Urban Future Initiative. Stay tuned for news as we progress in this research project.
Click on the photo above for more information.

We are honored to announce our selection and participation in the 2012 Audi Urban Future Initiative. Stay tuned for news as we progress in this research project.

Click on the photo above for more information.

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We recently did an extended radio interview on Cape Town’s Jenny Crwys-Williams Show. It was a fantastic, 45-minute long dialogue between us, Jenny and Jo Noero of the Noero-Wolff architecture firm. 

Beauty in the Dust of Slums

An excellent article on our work and appearance at Design Indaba in Cape Town by Victor Dlamini in City Press.

Lecture at Wits Univ. in JoBurg. March 6th, 2012.

Lecture at Wits Univ. in JoBurg. March 6th, 2012.