David Worth

I trained in Industrial Archaeology at the Ironbridge Institute in England, where I obtained a Masters Degree in 1993; and was awarded a PhD by the University of Cape Town in 2004 for my thesis “Gas and Grain: The Conservation of Networked Industrial Landscapes“.

I have a particular interest in conservation issues and the use of Conservation Plans, and for twelve years was the treasurer of TICCIH (The International Committee for Conservation of the Industrial Heritage).

In 2014, South Africa’s leading newspaper described me as a “lover of dirty, smelly and unsightly architecture“. Not quite how I would have put it myself, but I guess they do have a point.

I championed the retention and reuse of Cape Town’s Table Bay Harbour grain elevator from as long ago as 1994, and am proud that it has since been transformed by Heatherwick Studios into the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, which opened in September 2017.

I retired from the University of Cape Town in 2018, and am now living in France.

Gas and Grain: The Conservation of Networked Industrial Landscapes”
Abstract of PhD thesis in the Department of
Archaeology, University of Cape Town (June 2004).

David Worth
Industrial Heritage

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