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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon DE BEER, PRG (Rick) Born: fl 1954 Architect SACA: Reg No: 1537 Year registered: 1954 BArch (CT), ARIBA, MNRIA, SAIA, TPIA Arrived in Johannesburg in the early 1950s after graduating from the Cape Town School of Architecture 'still fresh with Cape Town sensibilities. The early Hillbrow projects of Pompeii and Longford by the partnership show 'not only how a wholesome neighbourhood can be established, bur how a genuine vernacular architecture, based on particularity, can be formed out of the Modern Movement matrix, by solving local problems elegantly (Chipkin 1993:241-242). In 1959 was a partner in the firm GLUCKMAN, DE BEER, MARGOLES and Partners, later GLUCKMAN, DE BEER and PETERS (ISAA 1969:183) of address 716 Leisk House, c/o Risk and Bree Streets, Johannesburg. References Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pp 241, 242 Chipkin, Clive M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. pp 261 ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 89, 183 ISAA. 1969. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1968-1969 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1968-1969. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 91, 117