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oh.a collaborates with Studio X Johannesburg to invite you to the launch of DARK SPACE: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity, a collection of critical essays  by  Professor Mario Gooden. RSVP to  studio@oharchitecture.com limited numbers apply   TIME  18H00-19H30     MEET 136 Buitengracht Street Cape Town   ABOUT MARIO GOODEN Mario Gooden is principal of Huff + Gooden Architects and a Professor of Practice at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) of Columbia University where he is also the co-Director of the Global Africa Lab (GAL). He is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. His firm’s work has been featured in journals and publications including Architecture Magazine, Architectural Record Magazine, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architecture & Urbanism (A+U) and ARTFORUM International Magazine. Huff + Gooden Architects work has been exhibited at the Internati...

'Clocks on the Floor': towards re-spatializing time in Rex Trueform, is a long essay publication that explores ideas around how the 20th century African factory has vividly spatialised the entanglement of modern constructions of space, time, personhood, labour and idleness. It interprets, amongst other, the use and the design of the 55 minute hour, a technique Rex Trueform implemented during the 1 940s to increase productivity on the factory floor. I argue here that it formed part of a general modernist civilizing and disciplining of black bodies.  The 55 minute hour has now been used in the title of 'Live Architecture: the 55 minute hour', an event made possible by Off Plan International curators Mary Corrigall, Amy Watson and Neliswe Xaba. They have invited a host of amazing artists including: Zyma Amien, Igshaan Adams, Bernardo Guiamba, Jenevieve Lyons, Gerald Machona, Francesco Nassimbeni and Richard De Jager, Buhlebezwe Siwani and James Webb to produce work for the...

Four letters and some new words about a walk. Photo by Barry Christianson 1. Post and lintel - a letter to Barry  Dear Barry Its the first week of 2016 and I finally have a moment to view the image you sent me on the 18th of December. When the email came through that day I saw it briefly on the screen of my phone and thought: ‘ok .. it must be part of a bigger image, I’ll look again later.’ Now I see it in its full glory on a bigger screen on the computer in a better resolution. No, its not a fragment of a larger image. It is a focus on a small part of a bigger space, a shot that highlights a detail of the larger architecture. It is a ‘detail shot’, or at least this is what we call it in archi - lingo, (lingo that both repel me and endear, depending on my mood on the day that I encounter such an image). Normally ‘detail shots’ are taken to highlight specific innovations that the architects are keen to show off when publishing their work. One famous architecture journal called ‘DETA...

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. 

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.

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:   ...

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