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In anticipation of tomorrow night's Open House Thursday, I would like to share some material that was sent to me by Antonio de Souza Santos. He designed the house together with Adèle Naudé Santos in the early 1970s. Enjoy!

In 2012, the house was included in a monograph OH tour in which the architects introduced the house with a story of its design. Click here to view a film of House Stekhoven with commentary by the architects. Here is an interview with Adèle Naudé Santos and Antonio De Souza Santos about their work in Cape Town between 1967 - 1972.  BOOKINGS By payment to: Open House Architecture cc Nebank Acc No:   123 21 35380 Branch code:    123 209 Ref: yourname + 2404 Email proof of payment to tours@oharchitecture.com Bookings essential Spaces are limited Transport not provided MEET 5 Ohlsson Way, Newlands GPS LAT:         -33°58’29.39 LONG:     18°27’29.41 FEE R50 Students free CPD The event carries 0.3 Category one CPD points. Please send your SACAP no. with your proof of payment.

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...

I am totally excited about OH14. Not only are we visiting the most exquisitely designed homes and apartments in Cape Town but the architects - highly acclaimed Adèle Naudé Santos and Antonio de Souza Santos   WILL BE THERE! Adèle Naudé Santos is  the current dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in Boston  and  Antonio de Souza  Santos (Tony) is a  Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.   Both have agreed to pause their very busy academic and practice schedules and join us in looking at these wonderful creations of the late 1960s and  early   1970s. OH14 will be a rare occasion to speak to, challenge and debate with these ex-South African architects about their work. Thank you to C&CI and BASA for generously sponsoring this event. To join OH14  BOOK HERE House Shear House Shear   Stekhoven House   Stekhoven House Scott Rd Apartments   Scott Rd Apartments Rowan Lane Rowa...