PULLEN, Harry

Architect

AIAA

His background and training are obscure. He worked in Port Elizabeth from at least 1927 when he registered with the Institute of South African Architects, associated with SMITH, SON & DEWAR for many years. He and ID MacGILLIVRAY continued to run the practice after GO SMITH retired in 1936. Not much work has been attributed to Pullen; MacGillivray left the firm a few years later, around 1938, and Pullen remained in the office, apparently running it, although the ISAA Yearbook (1938/39) listed him as a salaried member; he was again listed as a salaried member of the firm in the ISAA Yearbook 1939/40. By 1959 Pullen was listed as a practising member of the ISAA. By 1969 he had moved to Knysna.

(ISAA mem list; ISAA Ybks 1938-54; SAB Aug 1936:53)

All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

House GA Upton: 1939. Walmer, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect

House Schoeman - Farm Jakkalsfontein: 1937. Nxuba (Cradock), Eastern Cape - Design Architect

Newspaper House: 1902 : 1952. Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Eastern Cape - Architect 1952

Shops/stores Teikamdas Bros: 1939. Central, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

References

ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 95, 209

ISAA. 1969. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1968-1969 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1968-1969. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 99, 165

ISAA. 1927. Register of Members the Institute of South African Architects. Johannesburg: ISAA (Unpublished Record). pp P12a