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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Architecture) by Type "Thesis"
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Many South African architects’ firms are finding it difficult to prosper in the changing economic and business environment. While all the contributing factors are not obvious, it is suggested that the lack of entrepreneurship ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)The practice of traditional medicine, in its various forms and to varying degrees, has always been an integral part of the majority of South African’s lives. Among indigenous people, the practice of traditional medicine ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This thesis explores societal and municipal perceptions and meanings of urban public spaces in the City of Tshwane (CoT). Focus is placed on how these perceptions and meanings contribute to the conflict and contestations ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-02)This thesis presents an investigation into the hospital microbiome of the built environment. The researcher characterised the microbial landscape of two Western Cape hospitals through a multi-disciplinary approach. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)In response to the protracted and ineffective international action on the climate change crisis, this study critically considers the potential of building-integrated agriculture (BIA) as retrofitting strategy to improve ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study will develop a framework, comprising a set of design considerations, that sheds light on what ideas (theories) and what events (practices) result in the architectural analysis, conceptualisation, and making ...
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Construing free inhabitation in the domestic architecture of the Silent Subversives (1950s to 1960s) (University of Pretoria, 2018)This thesis investigates the socio-spatial inhabitation of the domestic architecture of a collective of South African architects – the ‘Silent Subversives’ - during the heyday of apartheid (1950s to 1960s). The research ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-12-04)Definition of the design evolution of the Hellenic Ionic Order and Ionic votive column typology is at present hampered by lacunae in knowledge regarding the Archaic Ionic capital in its foundational phase in architectural ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived spaces created by African migrants and people of diverse ethnicity in the Pretoria CBD, and to determine the implications that they could have for the spatial planning ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018-05-07)In this study a critical assessment is undertaken of the methods employed for the selection of beginner students for purposes of admission to studies in architecture. The study employs mixed methodologies that include ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-31)Climate change holds potentially serious consequences for low-cost residential neighbourhoods. This implies a need to determine how these areas can be managed so that they have capacity to cope with and adjust to climate ...
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The determination of pertinent contract document requirements for landscape projects in South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2010-11-11)Landscape and related environmental works are discussed as an integral and essential aspect of most land development projects, whether they are building or civil works, environmental protection, rehabilitation or landscape ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-26)The brief discussion of the history of ornamental plants at the start of the thesis is intended to provide the background to this study. It is followed by an exposition of the values that ornamental plants bring to our ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-29)Through education, a society hopes to reproduce itself, and through architecture a society reveals it’s values, aspirations, norms, beliefs and its cultural composition in the built environment. The first democratic elections ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)In this study it is argued that 'style' is the encoding of artefacts with 'memetic' content. Style is then given an Ecosystemic role- synchronically, being interactive in the cultural milieu, it has ecosystemic agency; ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study aimed to investigate the possible means of mitigating noise disturbance in naturally ventilated classrooms that are exposed to road-traffic noise. Specifically, the efficacy of façade design, building orientation, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2000)The void in available literature pertaining to the origin of the official architecture of the 'Publieke Werken Departement' in the 'Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek', the destruction of the Department by the Anglo Boer-War and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This study will undertake a critical analysis of the domestic architecture of Gawie Fagan so as to define its uniqueness in the South African architectural landscape, and the contribution the architect has made to the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Urban renewal responds to physical deterioration within cities to improve the quality of urban life. Urban renewal in Africa is undertaken in once colonial societies with their existing spatial built forms undergoing changes ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The main research problem was to determine interior design’s methods of cultural production. The original knowledge contributions of this thesis is summatively included in the imaginal interiors hypothesis: “Interior design ...
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