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Pretoria Regionalism
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(See also – Third Vernacular, Regionalism, Critical regionalism)
Pretoria Regionalism can be characterised by the following aspects:
traditional plan-forms
rustic brick, either directly as clinker or as whitewashed stock
low-pitched iron roofs
deep shaded eaves and verandas
sun-shy windows
sensitivity to landscape and land features
an architecture responsive to climatic constraints.
Pretoria Regionalism was evident in the work of DE ZWAAN, McINTOSH and EATON. EATON was soon to move towards an adaptation of the Modern Movement, partly as a response to the bad weathering of the taut-skinned and flat-roofed idiom of the International Style buildings under Transvaal conditions. He was friends with PRELLER and his clients included PIERNEEF and VAN WOUW.
Buildings on this website in Pretoria Regionalism style
| Hillcrest Swimming Pool and facilities: 1940s. Hillcrest, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng |
Koopkrag Building: 1954. Central, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng  |
Park Street Assembly of God: 1966. Sunnyside, Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng  |