In 1996 Don was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship[1] to complete his masters at the University of California, Los Angeles.

After graduation he spent another year as design associate at the office of AIA Gold Medallist (Los Angeles) Barton Myers, Beverly Hills.

This competition entry was submitted and realised from Los Angeles via the internet, an innovation at the time, and heralded a new mode of “integrated” non-hierarchical work space for post-apartheid industry.

Don Albert's High Performance Centre at the University of Pretoria and the Barrows factory are renowned in South Africa, and abroad, as ground-breaking typologies.

[5] Don Albert was the second youngest architect to be featured in Phaidon World Atlas of Contemporary architecture.