page_title: Magdalena Sauer
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Magdalena Sauer / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: most of the structures in this section of Longmarket St between Rose St and Chiappini St are declared Monuments This media shows a South African Protected Site with SAHRA file reference 9/2/018/0264/007.
context_page_description: Magdalena Sauer was the first woman qualified to practice as an architect in South Africa.
context_section_description: After she finished her architectural training, she registered with the Institute of South African Architects in 1927. She focused as residential architecture and restoration of older buildings. Among her projects were the restoration of buildings on Shortmarket, Longmarket, Rose, and Chiappini Streets in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap (then called the Malay Quarter) in the 1940s (with Reg de Smit), and creating the South African Cultural History Museum from the former Supreme Court building in the 1960s (the building has housed the Slave Lodge museum since 1998).  She retired from architectural work in 1965. Both projects have since been declared protected historical sites.
  As a side occupation, Sauer wrote art criticism for Die Burger newspaper.
caption: Cape Town Bo-Kaap 188 to 200 Longmarket St with Mosque; several of the buildings in this photograph were restored by Magda Sauer in the 1940s
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