Named South Africa's best architecture website by the African Property Awards, four years after I designed and built it.
The practice had two decades of finished houses and a home page that opened on a statement of principles, so visitors scrolled past the argument to reach the architecture. Sustainability writes well and photographs badly, which is how the words ended up in front.
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The website
Architecture first. The thinking behind it sits further down, for anyone who goes looking.
It opens on a drone shot of a finished house, with twelve projects in a grid beneath. Each house has its own page, photographs and drawings. On the About page, the founder comes before the firm.
Website for a Johannesburg architecture practice, designed and built: twelve houses before any philosophy, later named South Africa's best architecture website.