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Date: 1967 Client: Pretoria Municipality Type: Museum Status: Extant Street: Skinner Street   Click to view large map Coordinates: 25°45'03.81" S 28°11'21.51" E

'The improbable marriage between the finesse of the smooth inner skin and chunky abstractions of the outer skin of concrete makes Didacta Pretoria's most sophisticated building'. The structural system of regularly spaced reinforced concrete columns with a continuous cantilevered upper floor, where carrying beams are accentuated in the prevalent mannerism of concrete structures in Japan (Greig, 1971: 211). All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. References: Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 211 Le Roux, SW(Ed). 1990. Plekke en Geboue van Pretoria Volume 1. Pretoria: Pretoria Argitektuurvereniging. pg 121