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Casa Bedo
Waverley, Johannesburg, Gauteng

Douglas Maurice COWIN: Design Architect
COWIN and ELLIS: Architect

Date:1936
Type:Homestead
Status:Extant
Street:8 Scott St

 


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Coordinates:
26°08'05.25" S 28°04'17.65" E

This was COWIN's own house.

(SAAR Nov 1938:426-33; Herbert 1975 Note: 16.35)

The site has been redeveloped for town houses with Casa Bedo retained and adaptively re-used to form two units.

[William MARTINSON, August 2011]

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:

Herbert, Gilbert. 1975. Martienssen & the international style: The modern movement in South African architecture. Cape Town - Rotterdam: AA Balkema. pg 146-147
Lipman, Alan Robert. 2003. Architecture on my mind : critical readings in design. Pretoria: Unisa Press. pg 194-199