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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon SCHLAPOBERSKY, Ivan Born: Architect SACA: Reg No: 2110 Year registered: 1961 BArch (Rand), MArch (Penn), ISAA, TIA, ARIBA, MSAITP. In 1966 he was a signatory to the broadsheet, CREDO. In 1967 he was amongst the founding members of the Urban Action Group (UAG), and through this their teaching activities at the Wits School of architecture as the Urban Action Teaching Group. In 1969 he was of address 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth House, 151 Smit Street, Johannesburg. Of SCHLAPOBERSKY CHIPKIN (2008:349-350) says: The principal designer of MOROSS and PARTNERS was Ivan Schlapobersky, a founder of Architects Against Apartheid (AAP), a prize-winning architect, Planning Professor at Wits, and a principal at WITHERS & GERICKE when he put together (with the assistance of 5th year architectural students at Wits) the Urban Design Handbook (1973), a valuable physical description of large contemporary projects in Johannesburg. He was a graduate, too, of Penn under Louis KAHN. Schlapobersky impatient with outmoded theory: he was a populist as reflected by the big sensitive market place. ... SCHLAPOBERSKY too, came out of the rationalist tradition, but that of a new version of functionalism commanded by Louis KAHN at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the graduate school that left its imprint on a whole generation of South African architects. On his return to South Africa Schlapobersky was responsible for several medium size suburban buildings and some striking contemporary houses, one for his own family in Norwood and one for Marian Veitch, a doctor practising in the southern suburbs. References Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pp 318 Chipkin, Clive M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. pp 309, 349-350