SPOOR, Hessel

Architect

He trained in the Netherlands where he obtained an MSc from Delft. He came to South Africa around 1939 and worked for PERRY & LIGHTFOOT in Cape at about that time.

In 1959 he was in partnership in Cape Town with RFH CHAPMAN (cf CHAPMAN & SPOOR).

(ISAA mem list; ISAA Ybk 1939-49)

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

120 Plein Street: 1972. Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Cape Steel Factory and Offices: 1964. Epping, Cape Town, Western Cape - Architect

Books citing SPOOR

Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pp 117

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 97, 210

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 101, 165