In the seven years since founding Robert Silke & Partners with Robert McGiven and Alex Geh, the practice has notched up a substantial portfolio of major Futurist projects - sometimes mistaken for “Art Deco” in style. Silke will speak to the origins of Art Deco & Futurism in relation to early architectural Modernism - as well as how this has informed the work of the practice and its attitude to style, decoration and traditional city-making principles. Silke articulates his dream of a “Hong Kong future” for the City of Cape Town.

Robert Silke “Robert Silke & Partners is one of the most exciting architectural practices in Cape Town. Silke has described his upbringing in Cape Town as urban and urbane, and has expressed a fascination with the private lives of ordinary buildings. His diverse interests extend into filmmaking. Silke’s remarkable residential conversion of the Art Deco Mutual building in Cape Town is credited with changing the fortunes of its neighbourhood.” - RSA365 by Shaun Gaylard & Brett MacDouga