YOU PROBABLY ASSOCIATE FACE BRICK with cookie-cutter Highveld complexes and apartheid-era civic structures. Over decades, these building blocks that require neither paint nor plaster have earned a bit of a bad rep. But it wasn’t always the case: at one time, face brick was a key player in local design, and brilliant local architects used the material to create buildings of real beauty.
Take Pretoria-based architect Norman Eaton. From the 1930s onwards, he was known for using
