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Browsing Research Articles (Architecture) by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 148
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2019-01)No abstract available.
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(3SMedia, 2022)Showcasing excellence, University of Pretoria final-year architecture student Wian Jordaan has been declared a regional winner in the 2022 Corobrik Student Architecture Awards, in addition to winning the Best Use of Clay ...
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(Routledge, 2021)This article investigates the architectural manifestation required for the establishment of the university as anchor institution in South Africa. Through an historical review of campus architecture and planning, an ...
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(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 ...
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(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.
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-01)As built environment theory evolves, so does the awareness that built environments form an integral part of natural systems. Living systems are capable of renewal and regeneration, resiliently adapting to pressures and ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2012)Dialectic relationships exist between architecture and emergent architecturally informed disciplines. Interior design constitutes such a discipline and is considered a critical case study. The main problem is to investigate ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)The recurrence of the traditional practice of patterns on surfaces of the human body and architecture is explored here. In histories and theories of architecture bodily markings have been used to describe the metaphors ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-03)‘A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS,’ or so the saying goes. The inheritances of this phrase are attributed to a number of sources, including an ancient Chinese proverb, Napoleon Bonaparte (who remarked that ‘a ...
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(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 ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2021-02)About two years ago, two new and distinctly different, but sensitively considered additions were designed by Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Architects for St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) in Hillcrest Pretoria. ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)This article focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body and his explications of the body as mediator of the world. Merleau-Ponty's notion of the body which projects the cultural world around it by means ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)This article argues that the educational power of botanical gardens goes beyond the scientific collection of data but also makes use of the artistic influence of the garden through the perception and experience of the user. ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2008-03)During its "golden age" Portugal amazed the world with its great voyages of discovery. It was therefore appropriate that an epic poet of the time should record the achievements of his contemporaries for posterity. That ...
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(The South African Institute of Architects, 2012-09)The demise of the Modern Movement resulted in a plethora of architectural responses. Venturi argued for 'Complexity and Contradiction' (1966) in architecture, while contrastingly, Rudofsky (1964) and Oliver (1969), in their ...
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(University of the Free State, 2023-12)Urban renewal is undertaken to respond to the physical deterioration of built forms in postcolonial Africa, with renewal works affecting current cities’ identities. Globalisation trends have cities striving to be unique, ...
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(SUNMeDIA, 2014)This article describes strategic design decisions that architects can make during the initial stages of a project to minimise the use of construction materials, reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency. A ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2019-01)The University of Pretoria’s Department of Architecture has developed into one of the world’s top architecture and built environment educational institutions.
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