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OH Architecture in collaboration with Docomomo SA, presents OH_Thursdays: Hans Niehaus Gallery. Docomomo_SA is the South African chapter of Docomomo International, an international working party for the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement. Their interest lies in the exploration of the contribution of the modern movement to the South African cultural landscape. In colonial contexts and specifically in South Africa, the emergence of the Modern Movement coincided with regimes of power and architects were challenged to design for racially designated publics. Docomomo_SA the documentation of Modern Architecture within this context.  The Hans Niehaus Gallery and antique shop was designed by the late architect Norbert Rozendal in collaboration with owner, Hans Niehaus. The mixture of curvilinear and rectangular geometries, brick, timber, glass and concrete makes it a wonderfully curious moment in the context of the bland suburban s...

This piece by Robert Silke , about the Niehaus Gallery and its architect, Norbert Rozendal, is superbly written and accompanied by evocative photographs by Gaelen Pinnock . Robert has agreed to give a brief discussion on the building at the OHThursday on the 29th Jan 2015. 

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...