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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon SMITH, Hylton Born: Architect One of the architects who shared and office with Mannie FELDMAN in Braamfontein, Johannesburg in the c.1960s. He was imbued with a strong sense of perfection - to bring order to a random building industry. His drawings and documentation were brilliantly co-ordinated ... . The impulse to standardise building information may have derived from Smith's stay in post-war Britain where they caught a glimpse of a rational architecture associated with the Hertfordshire building programme (Chipkin 2008:115) References Chipkin, Clive M. 2008. Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000. Johannesburg: STE Publishers. pp 115