Lindsay Falck
(Unidentified photographer, n.d.) Full name: Dyer Alfred Lindsay Falck Born: 1934, Sea Point, SA Died: 2020, Philadelphia, USA Profession: Architect, lecturer Contextual timeline Notes A contemporary of Roelof Uytenbogaardt and Neil Grobbelaar amongst others, Lindsay was taught by Professor Thornton-White, the Director of the UCT School in the 1950s and early 1960s. Under Thornton-White’s guidance that generation was schooled in the main design principles of the modernist masters such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Immediately after graduation Lindsay went to work for Thornton-White as an assistant (and later senior assistant). Thesis project In 1960, Lindsay began his association with architect Revel Fox - Lindsay was one of his first employees. He worked with Revel on the Ballet School at UCT, the La Cock House, and the Deanery for the St. George Cathedral in Cape Town, for a period of nine months before the jobs dried up and he found temporary employmen...