[DAVID GOLDBLATT] --I'm too late for this photograph.
--The trees are already in leaf.
--But I'm going to try. Let's have a look.
It seems to me that the style of architecture that is emerging to the north of Johannesburg
is a kind of aggressive materialism.
--Good morning, gentlemen.
In this country, because of the nakedness, almost, of the struggles that took place
between Black and White,
the structures that emerged were amazingly clear demonstrations of value systems.
White Afrikaner Protestant churches are those that I think of particularly.
The churches had these huge windows and this megaphonic structure.
Come the 1970s, the forces of liberation are coming down to South Africa,
increasingly impinging on Afrikaners.
So their new churches become defensive.
There are very few of them built with piercings in the outer walls.
Public structures become clear manifestations to self image.