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  • Towards a relevant framework for establishing the semiology of architecture in Kenya required for architectural dialogue in the creation of a Critical Regionalist Kenyan architecture 
    Ralwala, Anthony Oduor (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    The aim of this heuristic research is to develop a framework that is relevant and applicable for use in the description and explication of the semiology of Kenyan architectural artefacts from the paradigmatic perspectives ...
  • ComplexCity - A network of relations between differentials 
    Teessen, Minette (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    "The world of supermodernity does not exactly match the one in which we believe we live, for we live in a world that we have not yet learned to look at. We have to relearn to think about space.” (Augé, 1995:35)The ...
  • Reviving the Capitol, contemporary cultural production in left-over spaces 
    Hughes, Clare Margaret (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    The city of Pretoria can be likened to a blanket stretched thin, where previously urban programs shift to the expanding periphery leaving gaps in the city fabric. It is essential to investigate ways in which these urban ...
  • Experiential ground 
    Pansegrouw, Jacques Le Roux (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    In humanity’s current condition, the advantages of organic material sources are supplanted by the qualities of synthetics that allow for rapid growth and altered capabilities, whilst man becomes further removed from ...
  • Landscape experience : an archetypal landscape approach to water spaces 
    Labuschagne, Ilze (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    Aesthetics were the main passion of early century landscape architects. A focus on the concern with ecology followed, while the late twentieth century landscape architecture developed towards a concentration on restoration ...
  • Le Morne world heritage site - interpretation centre 
    Paterson, Avril Roderick (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    Through the passing of time we gain perspective of the past and thus we gain knowledge. Through the interpretation of this knowledge we can inform and evaluate our visions of and goals for the future. ‘Our knowledge of ...
  • The Gavel and the Ghost 
    Smit, Reynard (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    This thesis explores an alternative method of making Architecture based on ideas presented by Bruno Latour in “Give me a gun and I will make all buildings move” and concepts discussed by Peter Eisenman within “Diagram: An ...
  • Zwartkoppies farm complex : exploiting a redundant cultural landscape for social, ecological and economical development 
    Scheffer, Bianca (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The cultural landscape has long been the indigenous language of man and the original inhabitancy of all living things. Humans evolved amongst animals, under the sky, upon the earth and near water resources. We have touched, ...
  • HAZELDEAN- Regenerating a Neglected Landscape: A revived identity and a new purpose 
    Martins, Kiana Afonso (University of Pretoria, 2013-11-09)
    Tshwane is a city that is expanding eastwards. In the process, valuable cultural and ecological landscapes are being neglected. These unique landscapes, which contain critical environmental assets, could be made attractive ...
  • An Exploration of Office Design: Understanding the character of our workplaces 
    De Klerk, Sunica (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The workplace environment is intrinsically dynamic, yet architecturally it is treated as something that is fixed. Functional layouts specific to the thinking of the time (zeitgeist) are built into the structure leaving ...
  • Ento.morph - A food culture intervention in Marabastad 
    Vally, Rishaad Ismail (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    This dissertation will investigate the role that architecture can play in the influencing of an existing food culture through the introduction of insect consumption (entomophagy). This alternative food source will be used ...
  • Autobiography 
    August, Dustin Enrico Peter (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    Post Apartheid freedom architecture constructs new narratives and encounters with our past. Often representing the collective memory, these spaces exclude peripheral memories, displaced communities and negate engaging with ...
  • Barren praise : an apiary as a placemaking interface in the post-industrial context 
    Von Geyso, Carlheinz Christoph (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The relation between industrial enclosures and their environments change in the post-industrial state, which causes a loss of orientation and identification of place. While the inherent character of such a place does not ...
  • Urban Foyer 
    Moodley, Lisha (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The introduction of the Bus Rapid Transit and the Gautrain Rail and Bus facilities to the corner of Wolmarans and Rissik Street in Johannesburg's inner city has altered the site on which the Brazilian Modernist inspired ...
  • Latent potential : a post-industrial artefact : re[ge]nerating resources from a depleted quarry : architecture as interface of exchange between people and resources 
    Büchner, Ingmar Christoff (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    The continuing industrialisation of global society, specifically in developing countries, has resulted in the ongoing extraction of the earth's resources to feed the ever increasing demand for economic growth. What will ...
  • New Era Ceramics : a solvent for the industrial boundary 
    Taljaard, Carla Christine (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the legacy of industrial spaces, the effect of this legacy on the surroundings, and how these spaces then become disconnected and isolated after industrial activity is ...
  • Figures in the room - Robot City 
    Sindi, Tuliza (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    An oppressor-oppressed nature exists between adults and children. Children are not considered as individuals in the planning of cities but are rather treated as universal, homogenous beings. Their rights as competent social ...
  • Machinarium 
    Van Eeden, Heidi (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    Machinarium is an exploration of industrial bio-mechanical hybridity as part of the 21st Century paradigm. The dissertation investigates the potential of industry as urban catalyst - a mechanism with which to regenerate ...
  • Menlyn Transit Hub 
    Janz, Heinz Karl Reinhold (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    This dissertation explores the potential to reorganize currently fragmented urban islands into a quality, unified civic space by means of a much needed mass transit inter-modal facility within the Menlyn precinct. It is ...
  • The Garden Is Us 
    Van der Merwe, Johannes Marthinus (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    Poetic dwelling, both as the perception of and engagement with the environment, has predominantly been lost in contemporary society. As a result, the earth had become an ‘inexhaustible inventory’ in the eyes of the dweller, ...