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An Open House for Austrian Architects

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Riegler Riewer , a practice based in Austria, Germany and Poland, asked us to assist them in organising the programme for a group of Austrian architects. We organised a tour of a few iconic modernist homes in Cape Town. We took them to a selection of homes and apartments by Adèle Naudé Santos and Antonio De Souza Santos, and Pius Pahl. 

OH16_Rex Trueform

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Open House, exhibitions and films. O ur engagement with the Rex Trueform factories in Salt River has continued. Between 2014-2015 we organised an Open House of the buildings, organised an on site exhibition and produced a short film. The film, which can be viewed below, raises questions of identity formation and modernist space, a main research preoccupation of ours. Thank you to MUTI films for the production, Mark Donough for his descriptions of factory life and Sandy Policansky for her generous time and insight into her father, Max Policansky's life. Documentation of a modern factory through event, exhibition and film.     Open House to the Rex Trueform factory, a space that has become a point of reflection on its past, once a place of intense urban industry, as well as a point of entry into the ways modern architecture played a role in shaping our societies and our identities.