JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 JOURNAL OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS JANUARY/FEBRUARY UNDER 40s PICASSO HEADLINE 15002 Issue RSA R20.00 (incl VAT) 9 771682 938004 Other countries R17.50 (excl VAT) 71 JAN|FEB 2015 COVER_71_final.indd 1 2015/02/18 10:59 AM _To Check_fcp.indd 1 2014/12/08 8:45 AM PUBLISHERS: Picasso Headline (Pty) Ltd Times Media Building Central Park Black River Park, Fir Street Cover Illustration Observatory, 7925 Heidi van Eeden Tel: +27 21 469 2400 Fax: +27 86 682 2926 EDITORIAL Editor Julian Cooke
[email protected] Editorial Advisory Committee Walter Peters, Roger Fisher, Ilze Wolff, Paul Kotze YOUTHFUL MATURITY Content Manager Raina Julies There are three rather interesting differences in this publication of under 40s’ Content Co-ordinator Michéle Jarman work and the previous one of 10 years ago (Architecture SA July/August 2005). The
[email protected] first regards authorship. In that previous edition, all the work came from architects who were principals of practices. In this one, there are a number of projects by Copy Editor Vanessa Rogers architects working in someone else’s practice, meaning that established firms are 2015 | JANUARY/FEBRUARY NOTE EDITOR’S openly attributing authorship of some of their output to employees. How much PRODUCTION Head of Design Studio more generous is this recognition than the vigorous covering up of authorship in Jayne Macé-Ferguson the past, when it had not been that of a principal! The practice was unfair to the individual and confusing historically. We know, of course, that the principal owns the Designer Mfundo Ndzo designs coming from his or her office, and is responsible to the client and ultimately to society for them.