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On 30 March 2017 pumflet: art, architecture and stuff  distributed its second edition called pumflet   'gaiety'.  'Gaiety' published the recollections of  Wilfred Damon,  ex-resident of Die Vlakte a site of apartheid forced removals in Stellenbosch. Wilfred's memories focused on the Gaiety Cinema, the bioscope designated for racialised persons of colour. He writes how he learnt that his favourite opera would not be screened there despite it showing at the Plaza, the cinema for white patrons. He snuck into the white cinema and watched the opera 'illegally'. The intervention included a public tour of the demolished neighbourhood and a screening of La Boheme at the site where the Gaiety once stood, today a commercial complex and a pizza eatery. A big thank you to all who contributed to make this event and intervention possible and to everyone who attended. Another tour is organised on 18 November 2017 from 10am -1pm and organised by Gallery University Stellenb...

Please join us in conversation with Jo Noero who will walk us through this special set of buildings . To book email tours@oharchitecture.com. 17:30 – 19:00 FEE R50 Students free CPD The event carries 0.3 Category one CPD points Please send your SACAP no. with your proof of payment. BOOKINGS By payment to: Open House Architecture cc Nebank Acc No:    123 21 35380 Branch code:     123 209 Ref: your name + 2108 Email proof of payment to tours@oharchitecture.com Bookings essential Spaces are limited Transport not provided MEET 2387 Gorge Rd, Oranjezicht GPS LAT:          -33.941046 S LONG:      18.418000‎ E

Rather late than never: pictures of the Open House Thursdays series from March - May 2014.   Photo credits: Heinrich Wolff

BOOKINGS CLOSED The next Cape Town based OH will review the work of Andrews and Niegeman, focussing specifically on the architectural production of its founding partners  E.  Douglas  Andrews and Henk Th. O Niegeman.  The OH will include the Rex Trueform factories, Bertish factory (now House of Monatic) and SA Naval Staff College. Andrews and Niegeman are considered as Cape Town's pioneer modernist architects who produced innovative and creative work during the 1940s and 1950s. The work will be reviewed within the context of their time, taking stock of the kind of architectural space that was produced under the conditions of South African modernity such as racial segregation, industrialization and nationalism.  Prior to coming to Cape Town in 1936/7 Dutch born and trained architect Henk Niegeman travelled extensively working in Europe, Asia and Russia. He also worked in Belgian colonized Congo and is photographed here in a one-wheeled ri...