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A Modern Marriage OH_Review by Robert Silke 40 years on, Adèle and Tony Santos’ houses and apartments remain the Mother City’s most avant-garde . Architect Robert Silke, design partner at Louis Karol, met them in Cape Town last week after a decades-long absence. Architects are, as a rule, not good to each other. Whilst doctors and lawyers are known to cover for each other’s mistakes and Hollywood actors gush over each other’s work, architects (members of the world’s second oldest profession) can be catty and cruel to each other like the girls in a brothel-house. Which is probably why architects should never marry other architects. Architectural criticism comes to us far more naturally than architectural praise, and we’re often embarrassed when asked to name favourite buildings and to intellectualise why. It’s a very personal question, akin to describing why one finds a girl or boy attractive. In the Cape it’s even more difficult. Contemporary British architect Piers Gough said to me th...