“YOU KNOW, I COUNTED EVERY SINGLE BRICK IN THIS HOUSE,” says architect Adèle Naudé Santos, smiling, as she stands looking around the main bedroom of the first house she ever designed — a solid Modernist four-bedroomer completed in 1967 and situated in a narrow, leafy avenue in Cape Town's Kenilworth.
She may not actually be joking. Their modular layout, visible through the unplastered whitewashed walls, means you conceivably measure the dimensions