
The University of The Witwatersrand was founded in 1896 as the South African School of Mines, in Kimberley, before moving to Johannesburg in 1902 and changing its name to the Transvaal Technical Institute. A fomal, four year course in architectural education was initiated in 1911 and following renaming as the University of The Witwatersrand, in 1921, the first Chair of Architecture (and, the first School of Architecture and Quantity Surveying) were created.