LANGE, Barry Gunther Helpherus

Architect

DipArch (Rand), ISAA, CPIA.

Born in Benoni on 14 April 1919, Barry matriculated in 1936 and enrolled for the Diploma Course in Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand, but only completed 4½ years of the course. By 1940 he was employed by the DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS (DPW) in Pretoria as an Architectural Draughtsman. He subsequently decided to assist the War effort and enrolled with the Union Defence Force in the SAAF on 8 July 1940, training as an Observer. He survived active service and was demobbed with the rank of Lieutenant in November 1945.

William Prescott OSMOND was practicing in East London prior to WW2 with Cyril LANE, with their practice styled as LANE and OSMOND. Barry Lange had presumably met Osmond, either at the DPW or during the war, as Osmond served as an Officer interpreting Aerial Photographs. Shortly after WWII, they formed an architectural practice styled as OSMOND + LANGE ARCHITECTS.

Was the President of the East London Local Committee of the Cape Province Institute of The Institute of South African Architects (Now BKIA) in 1951.

He is recorded in 1959 and again in 1969 as principal and partner in the partnership of address 237 Oxford Street, East London.

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

House GC Baker: 1958. Bonnie Doon, KuGompo City (East London), Eastern Cape - Design Architect

House Lange: 1957. KuGompo City (East London), Eastern Cape - Design Architect

House Robinson: 1963. Beacon Bay, KuGompo City (East London), Eastern Cape - Design 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 93, 208

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 96, 161