WEPENER, Franz J

Architect

BArch (Rand), ISAA, TPIA

By 1948 Wepener had been senior architect in charge of housing for ISCOR at Vanderbijlpark, with Ross Gildenhuys as his assistant. Not liking the job much, he left to work for an architect there. He had met HWE STAUCH in 1936 when he was a student, and when Gildenhuys told him of an opening for a partner in STAUCH’s firm, he got in touch with STAUCH and joined the firm in 1948. The partnership ended in 1951. In 1959 he is recorded of his own account of address 319 Centenary Building, bureau Lane, Pretoria, Transvaal. In 1969 his address is recorded as 4302 DBS Building, Central Street, Pretoria, Transvaal.

(Nation, 1985:62-3).

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk - Rietfontein-Noord: 1955. Tshwane (Pretoria), Gauteng - 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 99, 193

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 103, 136

Books by WEPENER

Connell, PH; Irvine-Smith, C; Jonas, K; Kantorowich, R & Wepener, FJ. 1939. Native housing. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, unpublished collective BArch thesis