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Research Articles (Architecture): Recent submissions
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2012-11)Marié-Catherine le Fèbre was one of the first natives of French descent at the Cape and in 1686 hers the first baptism at Stellenbosch - it then being the earliest deliberate extension of the Dutch footprint at the Cape. ...
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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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(The Physical Development Sciences, University of the Free State, 2012-12)This article investigates the role that architecture can play in mitigating climate change by comparing the environmental impact of construction material use in two existing South African Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations ...
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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)David Hicks, internationally renowned British interior designer, author and garden designer, designed only three gardens in South Africa of which Riversfield Farm in the KZN Midlands was his last and uncompleted by the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan (1925-) is a leading South African architect. His architecture is regionally rooted and can be described as a “new” architecture that mediates between a love of the Cape vernacular, functional ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)According to the World Health Organisation mental illnesses have consistently increased over the past century, resulting in undisputed social and economical consequences. The confinement of patients to mental institutions ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)The architectural critic Reyner Banham (1922-1988) famously equated architectural education to a mysterious ‘black box’, a notion compounded by most beginner students being novices to the architectural disciplines and ...
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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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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2012)Approaching the city of Pretoria/Tshwane from the south, one is greeted by three monumental structures perched atop three hills surrounding Pretoria, from west to east: the Voortrekker Monument, Freedom Park, and the ...
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2012-06)Die doelwit van dié artikel is tweevoudig: eerstens is dit ’n poging om aan te dui dat kulturele seleksie van wat betekenisvol en wat van geen belang is nie, ’n direkte invloed het op die insameling van historiese data ...
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(The South African Institute of Architects, 2011)This paper explores the manner in which ideas of resource efficiency is taught to design students through the principles of iteration and generative design within a framework of ecosystemic thinking.
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)Despite the immediately recognisable differences in form, construction, use of material and variance in spatial realisation between mosques throughout the Muslim world, they share architectural elements and principles. ...
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2011-11)The humble milking stool is usually associated only with dairy production. This article investigates a broader context and socio-historical meaning portrayed in selected illustrations in English and Afrikaans children’s ...
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(The Physical Development Sciences, University of the Free State, 2011)This paper uses contemporary definitions of building regulations and building standards to establish the first performance standard (and the source of building regulations) for Southern Africa. Specific focus is given to ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)In observing recent journals, one notices the frequent use of stone cladding on building projects and associated advertisements, as a demand for a variety of stone cladding types. This article explores the idea of stone ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)This article focuses on the ambiguous aspects of 'ruin' in its different appearances - as visible material phenomenon and as concept or idea. The word 'ruin' implies the dialectic of passivity and action; the specific and ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)Mankind has enjoyed a long historical relationship with plants, using them as objects of beauty, sculpting gardens into a form of art and fashioning them into expressions of philosophical belief. From the 1970s onwards ...
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2011-06)Catharina of Paliacatte landed in Table Bay on 21 February 1657 after she was “eternally” banned from Batavia. This was on the same day that Jan van Riebeeck, through his granting of land to the Free Burghers, forever ...
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