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  Architect:   Lindsay Falck Images Source: Cape Institute for Architecture Source: Cape Institute for Architecture

Location:  22 Thistle St, Newlands, Cape Town Architect:   Lindsay Falck Date:  1956-58 Status:  Extant Style: Modernist Map Notes "Before Lindsay reached age 25, he had married, had three children (two of whom were conceived before he completed his thesis), and built – to his design and largely by his own labor – a modern house located at 22 Thistle Street in Newlands, Cape Town (1956-58). More than a few contractors involved in the construction of the Centlivres Building at UCT found themselves working on the Falck House. “We had wonderful times in that house,” Lindsay recalled in 2013, “always with a lot of the neighborhood children in and out. Cars and go-carts were built and rebuilt, and surfboards were made in the basement workshop…” (William Whitaker) Images Source: Cape Institute for Architecture Source: DocomomoSA Fiche by Jean Nuttal Source: DocomomoSA Fiche by Jean Nuttal Source: DocomomoSA Fiche by Jean Nuttal Source: DocomomoSA Fiche by Jean Nuttal Sour...

(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...

Location:  Protea + Klipfontein Rd, Athlone, Cape Town Architects: Revel Fox with Lindsay Falck Date completed: 1969 Style: Brutalism Status: Extant Source: M&G, 2022 (Ryan Enslin) Contextual timeline Map Notes The Eoan Group was founded in 1933 by Helen Southern-Holt, an English businesswoman involved in social work, who had emigrated to South Africa in 1930, as a cultural and welfare society in Cape Town's District Six.  It was initially founded  as an aftercare facility for young children, then moved towards  community upliftment through education, arts, and social activities for the coloured community. In 1935, she was joined by her daughter, Dr A. Maisie (Maisy)  Southern-Holt , a trained ballet dancer, who started dancing classes. Helen Southern-Holt (1893 - 1972 Canada) (Unidentified photographer) The late 1950s and early 1960s were the apex of the Eoan Group activities. The group initially rehearsed and operated from venues like the ...