Open House_Thursday: Hans Niehaus Gallery // 29 January 2015

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 shopping area of Claremont.  The fact that it is incomplete, and has been since its inception in 1991, doubles the curious nature of the space. 

Poster image by Gaelen Pinnock

Click below for: 

information on Norbert Rozendal
information on the building
a short walkthrough video
information on the Hans Niehaus Gallery

TIME

18:00 – 19:30

FEE

R55

Students free but booking essential

Docomomo SA members 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 + 2901

Email proof of payment to tours@oharchitecture.com

Bookings essential

Spaces are limited

Transport not provided

MEET

37 Vineyard Rd,

Claremont