Space as ritual : rethinking spatial strategies in the African city

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dc.contributor.author Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes
dc.contributor.author Da Costa, Mary-Anne
dc.date.accessioned 2009-04-15T07:09:59Z
dc.date.available 2009-04-15T07:09:59Z
dc.date.issued 2008
dc.description.abstract In this paper it is argued that contemporary architectural and urban space has become impoverished through the hegemony of a formalistic approach in architecture and urban design, and Modernism’s separation of subject and object. This has resulted in the loss of the (human) body and bodily experience as determinants in the spatial production of the African city. In addressing these issues a temporal dynamic reading of spatial construction is suggested, supported by new strategies in analyzing spatial conditions and taking account of the social event as a constituting influence. en
dc.description.abstract In hierdie artikel word geargumenteer dat kontemporêre argitektoniese en stedelike ruimte verarm geraak het as gevolg van die oorheersing van ’n formalistiese benadering in argitektuur en stedelike ontwerp, en die verwydering wat as gevolg van Modernisme tussen objek en subjek ontstaan het. Die gevolg hiervan is die verlies van die (menslike) liggaam en ligaamlike ervaring as bepalende faktore in die ruimtelike produksie van die Afrika-stad. Om hierdie kwessies aan te spreek word voorgestel dat ’n temporele, dinamiese beskouing van ruimtekonstruksie nodig is, ondersteun deur nuwe strategieë waarvolgens ruimtelike omstandighede wat sosiale gebeurtenis as vormende invloed in ag neem, geanaliseer kan word. af
dc.identifier.citation Van Rensburg, RJ & Da Costa, M-A 2008, 'Space as ritual: rethinking spatial strategies in the African city', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 43-55. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html] en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0258-3542
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9629
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_US
dc.rights Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_US
dc.subject Bodily experience en
dc.subject Spatial construction en
dc.subject.lcsh Space (Architecture) en
dc.subject.lcsh Place (Philosophy) in architecture en
dc.subject.lcsh Cities and towns -- Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Architecture, Modern en
dc.subject.lcsh Public spaces -- Design -- Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Public architecture -- Social aspects -- Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Modern movement (Architecture) en
dc.title Space as ritual : rethinking spatial strategies in the African city en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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