ADeKAMA is an architecture practice grounded in careful observation and response rather than a predetermined style. Our work begins with an understanding of place – its landscape, climate, culture, and constraints – and develops through clarity of spatial thinking, material honesty, and restraint.
We work across residential, hospitality, and public architecture, with experience ranging from private homes and safari lodges to complex institutional projects. Regardless of scale or context, we aim to create architecture that feels deeply connected to its environment and responsive to the people who inhabit it.
We are particularly drawn to light-touch interventions and collaborative processes that allow architecture, interiors, landscape, and craftsmanship to form a cohesive whole. Longevity, environmental responsibility, and human experience guide decisions at every scale.
Our logo, the Vesica Piscis, is the geometric form created by the overlap of two equal circles. Traditionally associated with balance, proportion, and generative geometry, it reflects our interest in architecture as the resolution of dualities — between chaos and order, intuition and logic, atmosphere and precision, adaptability and permanence, expression and restraint, between landscape and structure.
For ADeKAMA, the symbol represents the poetic richness that can emerge when opposing forces are brought into balance; the quiet magic found in the harmony between different ways of thinking, making, and inhabiting.
Team
Anton de Kock
Anton is a SACAP-registered Professional Architect with experience spanning residential, hospitality, and public architecture across a wide range of scales and contexts. His work is guided by a belief that architecture should respond carefully to place, climate, landscape, and culture rather than impose itself upon them.
He is particularly interested in material honesty, restraint, and architecture that sits comfortably within its environment. Much of his work involves complex or environmentally sensitive sites, requiring close collaboration with clients, consultants, artisans, and specialists throughout the design and construction process.
Anton’s experience includes technically demanding public projects as well as extensive work in high-end residential and hospitality architecture. He studied architecture at the University of Cape Town and has approximately thirty-six years of professional experience.
Andries Mathee
Andries is a SACAP-registered Professional Architect with experience in high-end residential architecture, technical detailing, and digital project coordination. His work is driven by a strong interest in tectonic expression, material logic, and the relationship between concept, construction, and place.
Andries enjoys translating architectural ideas into clear, buildable systems through careful coordination and detailing. He is particularly drawn to architecture where structure, material, and assembly are integral to the architectural expression itself.
His approach is informed by the South African landscape and a broader interest in context-responsive architecture that is thoughtful, restrained, and grounded in craft. Alongside architecture, he maintains an ongoing interest in furniture, lighting, and object design, and is passionate about processes of making, experimentation, and lateral creative thinking.
Andries studied architecture at the University of Cape Town and has approximately six years of professional experience.