Born in Pretoria in 1960, Carin Smuts is a graduate of
the UCT (1984). CS Studio, the firm she founded in 1989,
deals with projects of all sizes: large structures like the
Laingsburg Multi Purpose Center or extensions to Cape Town
University but also rural community hostels, community centres
and currently the project for Caledon-Helderstroom prison.
An acknowledged specialist in «low cost housing»,
Carin Smuts is often called upon to work on similar sites
abroad, for example in Brazil in 2000, where she was invited
by the MST Movement. She teaches in workshops in many universities
in South Africa and Namibia, and also takes the time to write,
with the ability to encapsulate that often characterises
experience: «Looking for
