Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of an African Factory

Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of an African Factory

Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of an African Factory is "an interdisciplinary study of the Rex Trueform garment manufacturing factory in Salt River, Cape Town. It follows the narrative of the site from the date of completion of the first factory in 1938 up until conversion of the site into an office park in 2013. Architecturally, the buildings are key works by pioneer modernist architects, Policansky, Andrews and Niegeman. The analysis of the form and the space of the buildings is interlocked with an analysis of the conditions within which these distinct buildings were conceived and built. As 20th century industrial buildings in Cape Town, they are representative of a particular kind of modernity, one that is entangled with constructions of race, class and gender. The book looks at how particular notions of race, class and gender were constructed, materialised and inscribed in the architectural form and space."

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