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Research Articles (Architecture): Recent submissions
Now showing items 81-100 of 163
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-07)HOUSE ROOKE at Monaghan Farm, located near Lanseria in Gauteng, is an architectural endeavour by client and architect that extends regional architectural traditions. In a time of architectural blight, aesthetic confusion ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-03)‘A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS,’ or so the saying goes. The inheritances of this phrase are attributed to a number of sources, including an ancient Chinese proverb, Napoleon Bonaparte (who remarked that ‘a ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2016-07)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences between, and the importance and benefits of, green façades and living walls – both commonly referred to as ‘green’ walls in urban areas. The paper briefly ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2016-07)Innovation in architectural form is, unfortunately, rare these days as many designers unconsciously resort to the use of fashionable clichés or international precedent. It is refreshing, therefore, to come across uniqueness ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2016-09)This paper explores Derick de Bruyn’s most recent project, house_derick. It tracks the architectural influences that inform his particular design approach to residential architecture, using his own home as the explanatory ...
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Dramatic transitions for poetic spaces : notes on the potential of public walled gardens in cities (Routledge, 2015-10)No abstract available.
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2015)The cultural role of the interior artefact, through the representation and interpretation of meaning, is considered in this article. This follows Umberto Eco’s moderate hypothesis of culture in which all cultural phenomena ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2015)The article investigates the cultural and industrial history of the Tswaing salt works which were established and operated for a period of 50 years at the Tswaing (seTswana for ‘place of salt’) meteorite crater 40km north ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2015)It is widely acknowledged that the canonic architectural principles developed, in the late 1920s, by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887-1965), better known as Le Corbusier, had a profound effect on the built environment ...
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(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015-09)The importance accorded to green infrastructure is related to sociocultural values, which also affect the social production of ecosystem services. The literature distinguishes four categories of ecosystem services to be ...
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(Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2015-11)Architecture and its influences on our daily life form the premise of the study. Every space has a character which is defined by the type of human engagement it solicits. Spaces have varying characters and the suitability ...
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(SUNMeDIA, 2014)This article describes strategic design decisions that architects can make during the initial stages of a project to minimise the use of construction materials, reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency. A ...
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(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-01)As built environment theory evolves, so does the awareness that built environments form an integral part of natural systems. Living systems are capable of renewal and regeneration, resiliently adapting to pressures and ...
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(Routledge, 2015)An alternative approach to conceptualizing and measuring the built environment is developed which forms the basis of a new assessment tool. The role of buildings is reframed to consider what capabilities for sustainability ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Cultural landscapes are dynamic systems and expressions of the interaction between the industrial and cultural activities of societies with the physical world. Historic societies that developed independently from fossil ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013-11)Anna Margaretha Siek, daughter of a potter from Bremen, grew up at the turn of the 17th Century when Simon van der Stel, and subsequently his son Willem Adriaan, were governors at the Cape. By this time the Cape was not ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Landscape architecture is a design discipline and a form of art. It is an art which grows, transforms, dies and revives itself in engagement with the physical world. It needs, as a design discipline, to engage with these ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)As a starting point of consideration, this enquiry briefly weighs up the Pre-Socratic (materialists) position of ‘the primary stuff of the universe’ with the trio Socrates-Plato-Aristotle’s differentiation between Form ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)The domestic architecture of the seminal South African architect Gawie Fagan expresses a unique technological inventiveness formed by a deep appreciation of the technical and haptic properties and qualities of building ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Projects that employ the full-scale fabrication of design proposals have been implemented successfully in various spheres of design education, especially as design/build projects within architectural education. Among the ...
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