In the two decades following South Africa’s first democratic election, the nation has undergone numerous physical transformations as part of its struggle to create a unified national identity in the face of the lingering remnants of Apartheid. New conciliatory spaces including museums, commemorative monuments, heritage sites, and public memorials have attempted to combine the diverse narratives of South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’ and shape a new national consciousness by facilitating necessary discussions and confrontations with the traumatic elements of South Africa’s past. Yet recent events including the #RhodesMustFall movement and the creation of radical new heritage spaces like the District 6 Museum reveal that the racial tensions, hierarchies, and infrastructures that have shaped South African reality both before and during the Apartheid period are still far from resolved. This lecture interrogates race, space, and architecture in South Africa from past to present, and in doing so, unpacks the role of space and architecture in South Africa as key players in the generation of hierarchies of racial power as well as conditions of disenfranchisement, disempowerment, and race-base...