Browsing by UP Author "Fisher, Roger C."

Browsing by UP Author "Fisher, Roger C."

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  • The architect as patron 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-07)
    It is well known that architects need patrons, otherwise they would have no commissions. However, many a successful architect has in turn become a patron to his own profession, either in his lifetime or through ...
  • Architects without architecture - architects and the art of photography 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-09)
    I was recently asked to write a postlude of Carla Crafford’s (née Hartman) forthcoming limited edition retrospective monograph. That got me thinking about the role of photography in architecture.
  • Architects without architecture - the architect as illustrator 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-05)
    While most architects are not only catholic in taste, they are also often artistic in temperament and multitalented. Most are schooled in the representation of buildings, a few turn this into high art – the art ...
  • Architecture and the academy - the research imperative 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2015-11)
    According to a position paper accepted by the Research Committee of the Royal Institute of British Architects and presented by Jeremy Till, several enduring myths about architecture and research perpetuate an ever-widening ...
  • Baker and Moerdijk – a shared legacy apart 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    This article presents Gerard Moerdijk’s response to the challenges posed by the legacy of Herbert Baker in South Africa, through, firstly, those aspects of an architecture derived from regional response, namely local style ...
  • The century celebrations of the Union Buildings 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-03)
    They came in their thousands to pay homage, with many eventually being turned away. As Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918–2013) lay in state, the significance and meaning of the Union Buildings seemed yet again to ...
  • The corbelled stone structures of Glenfield Farm, Salem - some interpretations revisited 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Various postulates concerning the origin and purpose of the corbelled structures in the vicinity of the Assegaaibos River on the farms Farmerfield, Glenfield and Springfield, Eastern Cape Province (previously Albany District) ...
  • Cultural hybridity in the teaching of architecture within a decolonised society 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Lange, Mary E.; Nkambule, Mbongiseni Emmanuel Nathi (Universidade de Brasília, 2017)
    Descolonizar o ensino-aprendizagem em Arquitetura requer questionar o que é pertinente a uma sociedade multiracial, multicultural e multi-liguistica e ao mesmo tempo adequado a uma disciplina internacionalista. Examinamos ...
  • Death, cremation and columbaria in the culture of Dutch Christian Calvinist South Africa 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    From the earliest days of South African colonisation - through the offices of the VOC - there was the hegemony of Calvinist belief as it manifests in Dutch Reformed Protestantism in which death was preordained, inevitable ...
  • An ecosystemic sense of architectural style 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Picasso Headline (Pty) Ltd, 1993-02)
  • Fortified frontier farmhouses: English precedent for the Eastern Cape 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Booysen, J. (South African Society of Cultural History, 1994)
    As an introduction to this essay, observations made by English settlers on the landscape of the Eastern Cape are quoted. In this way a link is forged with their homeland. The Eastern Cape, an area to become a zone of dispute ...
  • Gerard Moerdijk - death and memorializing in his architecture for the Afrikaner nationalist project 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The oeuvre of Gerard Moerdijk, as practitioner and self-proclaimed architect to the Afrikaner Nationalist Project, used the opportunity of the memorializing of deceased personages taken up in the epic narrative of Afrikaner ...
  • Gerard Moerdijk - the formative years 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Allen, N.P.L. (Nicholas P.L.); Mare, Estelle Alma; Steyn, Gerald; Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Group of South Africa, 2003)
    In this article Moerdijk's early architectual career is paralleled with the chronological sequence of texts that express his concerns with developing an authentic South African style. In these we discover those significant ...
  • Heidelberg Transvaal 
    Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem); Fisher, Roger C.; Stadsraad van Heidelberg; Raad vir Nasionale Gedenkwaardighede; Olivier, J.L. (Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, 1988-11)
    Bewaringsverslag van geboue en plekke van Heidelberg, Transvaal aan die Stadsraad. Die studie is gedoen deur onder leiding van Prof Roger Fisher en Prof Schalk Le Roux van die Departement Argitektuur, Universiteit van Pretoria.
  • Huise van Botshabelo, deel 1 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem); Swiegers, L.; Sigle, H.M.; Naude, Mauritz; Olivier, J.L. (Architecture Departement, University of Pretoria, 1991-04)
    Verslag van 'n studie gedoen deur die Argitektuurdepartement, Universiteit van Pretoria, te Botshabelo Sendingstasie, Middelburg.
  • Huise van Botshabelo, deel 2 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem); Swiegers, L.; Sigle, H.M.; Naude, Mauritz; Olivier, J.L. (Architecture Departement, University of Pretoria, 1991-04)
    Verslag van 'n studie gedoen deur die Departement van Argitektuur, Universiteit van Pretoria te Botshabelo sendingstasie, Middelburg.
  • Huise van Botshabelo, deel 3 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem); Sigle, H.M.; Naude, Mauritz; Olivier, J.L.; Swiegers, L. (Architecture Departement, University of Pretoria, 1991-04)
    Verslag van 'n studie gedoen deur die Departement van Argitektuur, Universiteit van Pretoria oor die Botshabelo sendingstasie, Middelburg. Report of a study conducted by the Architecture Department, University of Pretoria ...
  • The industrial archaeology of the NZASM in South Africa and some of its unique artefactual residue 
    Clarke, Nicholas John; Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2018-09)
    Industrial archaeology”, according to the Nizhny Tagil Charter for Industrial Heritage (2003) of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), the world organisation representing ...
  • Moerdijk and the shadow of Baker 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    Moerdijk, in his formative years as architect, held Baker and his patron, Rhodes, in high regard. But in his maturity he made little, if any reference to Baker’s influence or even legacy in the making of South African ...
  • The native heart : the architecture of the University of Pretoria campus 
    Fisher, Roger C. (2008-09-23)
    Article by Roger Fisher in 'Blank : Architecture, Apartheid and AfterBlank' about the various indigenous and political influences on the design of several buildings on the main campus of the University of Pretoria.