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UNDER 40S PICASSO HEADLINE 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. And we know that, in most architectural processes, a number Production Editor Shamiela Brenner of people are involved, but that’s no reason to cloak in mystery the name of the [email protected] chief designer. The shift suggests not only a new, healthy magnanimity, but also a commitment to making lasting opportunities for employees, rather than simply SALES Business Manager exploiting their capacities. Robin Carpenter-Frank The second encouraging sign of change is the submission of Other architecture [email protected] work, indicating that the profession is engaged in situations or communities where Manager: Architecture it would have been unlikely to be found 20 years ago. This is a sign that the Arnold Cruywagen broadening of the architectural role, discussed in depth in the UIA 2014 Durban [email protected] Congress, is beginning to happen on the ground and it bolsters the idea of enlarging Project Manager the spectrum of curriculum opportunities in university courses. Hendri Dykman [email protected] In the third clear shift, whereas in 2005, four of sixteen under 40 contributors were women, this year women were responsible for more than half of the contributions. Sales Consultants Looking at the work itself, I have a growing feeling of the irrelevance of the age Gift Bouwer, Noel van Breda, Munashe Mbavarira criterion. For some time, I accepted unquestioningly the commonly expressed idea Advertising Co-ordinator that architecture is an old person’s art. One thinks of Michelangelo, already in his Merle Baatjes seventies, conquering the immense formal problems of St Peter’s, or of Louis Kahn OPERATIONS struggling in his early years in mediocrity and blossoming to produce his magisterial Financial Accountant work in the last 15 years of his life, between the ages of 60 and 74. Because fine Lodewyk van der Walt architecture requires such a profound synthesis of knowledge, reason, practicality and vision, the notion that it is most commonly achieved by experienced people, in their mature years, seems to make sense. It is the subscript of an under 40s Senior GM: or emerging architects’ edition, and seems to lie behind Roger Fisher’s search for Newspapers and Magazines Mike Tissong “child prodigies” in his End Piece. However, if you check the record, as he began to do, it quickly exposes the falsity of the idea. Associate Publisher Jocelyne Bayer At random: Palladio’s Basilica and Villa Rotonda were designed only a year or two after he turned 40, even though he took up architecture only ten years before; SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DISTRIBUTION Philip Webb was 28 and William Morris 25 when they fashioned the Red House; Shihaam Adams Gerrit Rietveld produced the epoch-making Schröder House, his first building, E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 021 469 2400 when he was 36; Le Corbusier’s portfolio at the age of 42 included his two major city projects, Ville Contemporaine and the Plan Voisin of Paris, his seminal villas, Copyright: Picasso Headline and Architecture South Africa. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of La Roche, Garches and Savoye, and a host of other building projects and writings. the publishers. The publishers are not responsible for unsolicited material. Architecture South Africa is published every second month by Picasso No, architecture has its full complement of Mozarts, Masaccios, Keats’s and Headline Reg: 59/01754/07. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those Jane Austens, just like any other art, and the buildings published here must be of Picasso Headline. All advertisements/advertorials and promotions have been paid for and therefore do not carry any endorsement by the publishers. appreciated and criticised with as much acuity as any work by an old hand. 1 Ed's Note_71.indd 1 2015/02/18 10:43 AM Untitled-2 1 2014/11/17 11:23 AM CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTES 01 YOUTHFUL MATURITY Julian Cooke NOTES AND QUOTES 05 PETER RICH AWARD 14 BERNADUS RIJKS VAN DER WALT: A TRIBUTE – ARCHITECT AND ARBITRATOR Stanley Segal CONTENTS | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 CONTENTS | JANUARY/FEBRUARY FIELD NOTE 07 THE NEW (YEAR’S) REVOLUTION Heidi van Eeden THEME: UNDER 40s 12 THREE HOUSES HOUSE SAKER, BETTY’S BAY Open City Architects – Bettina Andrag & Marine Leblond 14 HOUSE SNYDERS, CROCODILE RIVER: REFLECTIONS OF THE LAND W design architecture studio – Johan Wentzel 17 EBONY DRIVE, NORTHCLIFF 22 Origin and James – Karin Harcus-Harrison 22 RETHINKING THE WALL: DORDABIS COMMUNITY SPINE Wasserfall Munting Architects – Mieke Droomer and Andre Christensen 28 VIOLENCE PREVENTION THROUGH URBAN UPGRADING: APPROACH TO RECLAIMING THE PUBLIC REALM Principal Architect & Urban Designer: Kathryn Ewing Project Architects/Urban Designers: Stephanie Potgieter, Hanna Duker, Dylan Pope, Caitlin Comrie Kathryn Ewing 31 VULAMASANGO CHILD AND YOUTH CARE FACILITY, PHILIPPI NM & Associates Planners and Designers – Sandra van der Merwe 34 STUDIO VIJF, STELLENBOSCH 28 Jürgen Kieslich 40 ARCHITECTURE FOR LIFE: EXPLORING REGENERATIVE AND RESILIENCE THINKING Edna Peres, Arthur Baker and Chrisna du Plessis, Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria TECHNICAL 47 IKHAYA LE TEMBA Dawid de Vaal Hans Wegelin PERSPECTIVE 49 MY LIE IS MADE OF WOOD Nic Coetzer END PIECE 51 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON ARCHITECTURE’S PRECOCIOUS 34 PRODIGIES AND TWO OF SOUTH AFRICA’S OWN Roger Fisher 3 Contents71.indd 3 2015/02/17 4:22 PM Untitled-1 1 2015/01/19 9:57 AM AN AWARD AND A TRIBUTE PETER RICH AWARD would be completely destroyed by the environments at densities in excess of Peter Rich has been awarded a 2015 apartheid regime. 125 units per hectare. RIBA International Fellowship. An “[His] greatest contribution to African “From his 2008 thematic master plan abbreviated citation follows. architecture has been [made] through his for Aksum, close to the iron-age city “Peter Rich’s work was little known seminal research into African concepts in Ethiopia, through Mapungubwe to in Europe, until the Mapungubwe of space-making in sub-Saharan Africa, his latest project, the Laetoli African Interpretation Centre was awarded including traditional transitional and Origins Museum in Tanzania, Peter the Building of the Year prize at contemporary applications. has used spatial models derived from a the 2009 World Architecture Festival He founded the Kigali-based practice local tribal vernacular to communicate in Barcelona. Light Earth Design in order to lead the the story of Africa’s creative genius to Yet, from the 1970s, Peter researched development of local African building the world.” and documented by means of sketches industries, particularly in land-locked In 2010, Peter was awarded an and measured drawings the traditional countries, through the application of Honorary Fellowship of the American rural settlements of South Africa, his appropriate sustainable technologies. Institute of Architects and the South motivation being the distinct possibility His research also led to the development African Institute of Architects’ that such indigenous settlements of first-generation African urbanGold Medal. NOTES AND NEWS | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 AND NEWS | JANUARY/FEBRUARY NOTES BERNARDUS RIJKS VAN DER WALT, ARCHITECT AND ARBITRATOR: A TRIBUTE ARCHITECT AND ARBITRATOR BY: STANLEY H SEGAL Rijks van der Walt, architect, arbitrator Johannesburg Opera House in Auckland rather than just letting things happen, and founding partner of MV3 Architects Park, which unfortunately never saw and of “doing things right the first time”. (Pty) Ltd died in December 2013 after the light of day. His love of the theatre Rijks would be at the office at the contracting Parkinson’s disease, which left was rewarded when, in 1975, MV3 crack of dawn after his gym workout him bedridden for the last months of his Architects was appointed the project and would have checked the drawings life. His death, at the age of 85, occurred of the Ettienne Rousseau Theatre in on each staff member’s board before just two months after his wife Noreen Sasolburg, which Rijks designed and the they arrived, often leaving cryptic notes was brutally attacked in their Hermanus building contract of which he managed. when he discovered items not to his home and died shortly thereafter in So successful was this 500-seat theatre, liking.
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