• FOR A HOME, PEOPLE DIE

FOR A HOME, PEOPLE DIE

: Cooke (J.)

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216pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2021

 

Social architect and academic Julian Cooke on the conversion of migrant workers' 'single sex' hostels into family accommodation in Nyanga, Guguletu and Langa townships on the Cape Flats, a plan that was launched in the mid-1980s.

Self-published.

Julian Cooke was head of the School of Architecture at the University of Cape Town from 1990 to 1994. He retired as an Emeritus Professor in 2000. He was Editor of the journal Architecture SA from 1982 to 1987, and was re-appointed in 2003 to date. As a practitioner he has won several open architectural competitions in South Africa, and has received many awards, including the 2015 SAIA Gold Medal Award for architecture.