ABSTRACT
The photo-essay here is looking at architectural gestures of generosity that were acted out in South Africa without a specific recipient in mind and thus disengaging the practice of designing from any forms of socio-political biases that carries racial undertones based on divisiveness, inequality, and falsely assumed privilege. The essay presents architects, who in the height of the Apartheid movement, looked beyond the national divisions and were inspired by international styles of Modernism, Metabolism, and Brutalism. In doing so they appropriated ways of thinking about the future of architecture without the spatial stigmas of divisions based on abstract political agendas.
