House Like a City Like Johannesburg.

Johannesburg

1986

Typology
Houses
Landscapes
Urbanism
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Residential
City
Johannesburg
Country
South Africa
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A project for a House looking south towards Johannesburg, and north to the Magaliesberg. It was an important breakthrough in the understanding the contextual power of construction, that the only thing a building can imagistically represent without becoming ridiculous is another building, and that it should do so through its tectonic logic.
The evolution of found images into an imagined object, one which selects and intensifies its power through analogy and abstraction at the level of image and construction
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