Category: Personal Legacy
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History is rarely a straight line. It is often a series of mirrored images and hard-learned truths. In the early 1980s, I found myself in Umbilo, a suburb of Durban, working on the City Hall. As a student of architecture and stone, the building fascinated me. Designed by Stanley G. Hudson and completed in 1910,…
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In the quietude of the workshop, where the lineage of a craftsman is measured in decades of discipline and the preservation of ancient skills, the intrusion of the modern “hater” is a curious phenomenon. It is a paradox of our age that those with the least understanding of a craft often possess the loudest voices.…