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CEM PAST
T
he great painter
Georgia O’Keeffe, once
said, “I’ll paint what I
see-what the flower
is to me but I’ll paint
it big and they will
be surprised into taking the time
to look at it – I will make sure even
the busy New Yorkers take time to
see what I see of flowers.” She is
famed for her large presentation of
flowers. In daily life it is so common
for people to not pay attention to
certain things even large buildings.
One such building that sits on UCT’s
campus is the Centilivers Building,
tucked on the south end of upper
campus, this building carries history
for UCT’s Department of Construction
Economics and Management.
Centilivers is actually a play on
words; centi [meaning hundred in
French] and liver [meaning book in
French]; so when combined it can
be translated to ‘hundred books’.
The name was of the building
was certainly not a play on words
though, it was named after a rather
bookish figure. Centilivers building
is the namesake of Albert van der
Sandt Centilivers who served as the
chancellor for the university from
1951-1966.
A LOOK BACK
AT THE
DEPARTMENT’S
BIRTH PLACE
BY KUDZAI MHANGWA
LEFT View of Centlivres Building
in the 1950s
ISSUE 1
7
OCTOBER 2 024
