West African influence on various projects by Le Corbusier

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dc.contributor.author Steyn, Gerald
dc.contributor.editor Mare, Estelle Alma
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-09T12:19:33Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-09T12:19:33Z
dc.date.created 2014
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.description.abstract This article contributes to the renewed interest in Le Corbusier by exploring a proposition by the African American architect and scholar, Melvin Mitchell, that West African art and architecture had a decisive influence on a number of Le Corbusier’s projects. The proposition is explored by means of a matrix that cross-references the three levels of human settlement with three sets of architectural form-giving principles. Since Le Corbusier never acknowledged sub-Saharan sources, the results range from debatable to defensible. It is emphasised that the value of studying Le Corbusier does not so much lie in the tangible forms of his buildings, but rather in the thought processes that informed their conceptualisation and design resolution. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract Die doel met hierdie artikel is om ‘n bydrae te lewer tot die hernude belangstelling in Le Corbusier se argitektuur deur die stelling wat die Afrika-Amerikaanse argitek, Melvin Mitchell, gemaak het, dat Wes-Afrikaanse kuns en argitektuur ’n deurslaggewende invloed op verskeie van sy projekte uitgeoefen het, te ondersoek. Dit word gedoen deur middel van ’n matrys wat die drie vlakke van menslike nedersetting kruisverwys met drie stelle argitektoniese vormgewende beginsels. Aangesien Le Corbusier nooit bronne uit sub-Sahara erken het nie, wissel die resultate van hierdie ondersoek van debateerbaar tot verdedigbaar. Dit word egter beklemtoon dat die waarde daarvan om Le Corbusier se geboue te bestudeer, nie net in hulle tasbare vorms lê nie, maar ook in die denkprosesse wat die konseptualisering en ontwerpoplossings daarvan beinvloed het. en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/sajah en_ZA
dc.format.extent 17 Pages en_ZA
dc.format.medium PDF en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Steyn, G 2014, 'West African influence on various projects by Le Corbusier', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 135-151. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html] en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0258-3542
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46847
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_ZA
dc.rights Art Historical Work Group of South Africa en_ZA
dc.subject Le Corbusier en_ZA
dc.subject Melvin Mitchell en_ZA
dc.subject West African vernacular architecture en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh Art -- History
dc.subject.lcsh Architecture -- History
dc.title West African influence on various projects by Le Corbusier en_ZA
dc.title.alternative Wes-Afrikaanse invloed op verskeie projekte deur Le Corbusier en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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