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To whom it may concern Pumflet ‘gladiolus’ will be on sale at the Adderley Street flower market on 30 November throughout the day. It documents the conversation between ourselves about Luyolo, the black neighbourhood in Simonstown that was completely demolished in 1964 and from where most of the residents were moved to Gugulethu; and about Redhill, a black neighbourhood where people were moved to Ocean View and of which ruins still remain today. During our research about Luyolo and Redhill we looked at the paintings of Gladys Mgudlandlu, an artist from Gugulethu and the writings of Gladys Thomas, a poet living in Ocean View, in an attempt to find visual and literary links to these historic and contemporary sit es of forced removal. ‘gladiolus’ documents our speculations on Mgudlandlu’s depictions of Cape Town’s built environment of the 1960s and also our discussions with the poet Thomas from her Ocean View home. Through the documentation we meditate on the way these sites were linked t...

Join us in conversation with António Tomás as he presents his upcoming book 'In the skin of the city: Luanda or the dialectics of spatial transformation'. RSVP to tours@oharchitecture.com limited numbers apply TIME 18H00 - 19h00 MEET Wolff Architects  136 Buitengracht Street Bo Kaap Cape Town ABOUT António Tomás António Tomás received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University, in New York. He is the author of a study on the African nationalist Amílcar Cabral titled O Fazedor de Utopias: Uma Biografia de Amílcar (The Maker of Utopias: A Biography of Amilcar Cabral (Lisbon [Portugal]; Praia [Cape Verde], Tinta da China; Spleen, 2007; 2008). He was the Ray Pahl Fellow at the African Centre for Cities, in 2014, at University of Cape Town, working on a book called In the skin of the city: Luanda, or the dialectics of spatial transformation. He has taught as a permanent staff member and visiting scholar in a number of academic institutions such as Makerere ...

Customs House was designed by architects of the National Department of Public Works in Pretoria in the late 1960 ’ s and was built on the sea side of the highway. Its development was in violation of the intentions of the Cape Town Foreshore plan which intended to have no tall buildings built beyond the highway.   The material use and façade modulation shows affinity to the expression of the stark bureaucratic character of the building. The domed hall with its glass facades, wooden panelling, mosaics and artwork inside is a rare space in Cape Town. Join OHA for a lunch time tour of Customs House. Poster image by David Southwood Click below for: "Modernism under siege" by Heinrich Wolff, Art SA TIME 12:30 – 13:30 FEE R55 Students free (booking essential) 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:   ...

by David Southwood by David Southwood by Heinrich Wolff by Heinrich Wolff by Heinrich Wolff by Heinrich Wolff

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...