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MenuHomeUpfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon | JANKS, BernardBorn: 1910 04 09Died: 1991 05 31 ArchitectSACA:Reg No: 598 Year registered: 1935 | |||||
BArch 1934 (Witwatersrand) TPIA (1935); ISAA (1935); ARIBA (1938). Studied architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1928. He worked in vacations in the office of COOK & COWEN (1933-1935) and qualified in 1934. His early design work reveals the characteristic preoccupation one would expect from [his university studies] formative background, mediated by the commercial environment in which he ... operated (Chipkin 1993:248). He then entered into partnership with J GLIKSMAN (cf JANKS & GLIKSMAN) c1935/1936; the partnership lasting until 1939. In August 1939 he entered into partnership with O KLING (cf. JANKS & KLING). Janks was responsible for Philadelphia Corner in Jeppe Street, Johannesburg (1950). In 1959 he was practicing as BERNARD JANKS & PARTNERS, 835 Maritime House, Loveday Street, (Box 4398), Johannesburg. By 1960 they had relocated to Suite 521, New Plaza Centre, c/o Rissik and Jeppe Streets, Johannesburg. Chipkin (1993:247) considers his office the place where the 'Johannesburg regional office style' evolved as he had built up a busy commercial practice after WW2, there being a rapid expansion of Johannesburg's professional, commercial and business sectors. His compact practice had a small, busy staff. His senior assistant was Horace GREEN. Maurice KAPLAN worked there as a student in the early 1950s. CHIEN [aka KC TOUNG], ''a man of indefatigable energy and concentration'', was the engineer-architect, engaged with numerate questions and problems of production (Chipkin 1993:249). (ARIBA nom papers (6809) 1938; Arch Rev Jun 1953:373ff; ISAA mem list; ISAA Yearbook, 1959) 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. References
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