Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 25 (2010) by Subject "Architecture"

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 25 (2010) by Subject "Architecture"

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  • Circular structures and buildings associated with vernacular farm architecture and folk engineering 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The rondavel has become a typical feature on farmsteads but it is not the only building with a circular floor plan. Several other structures also have a circular floor plan. In Western architecture we have become accustomed ...
  • Creativity, the flow state and brain function 
    Van Heerden, Ariana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    There are various concepts of optimal human functioning such as creativity, flow, peak experience and self-actualization. With suggestions that creativity and flow are interrelated, and possibly even interchangeable, at ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Editorial to SAJAH 2010 with the theme “The visual arts and the sciences".
  • Editorial 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Editorial to SAJAH 2010 issue with the theme: "The processes of mediation".
  • From Bordeaux to Barcelona - Le Corbusier's creative journey that went unnoticed 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The evolution of Le Corbusier’s architecture from cuboid, slick and white forms, and the universality of Purism in the 1920s, to an earthy roughness, undeniabl[y] inspired by Mediterranean vernacular traditions after about ...
  • Mediating between tradition and meaning in stained glass windows 
    Janse van Rensburg, Ariane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The medieval church used stained glass windows to mediate between Latin scripture and the illiterate laity. Following the Reformation, Calvinist tradition avoided visual symbolism. In the Afrikaans Dutch Reformed Church, ...
  • Mediating public and private : three models of 'public space' 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is mindful of the increasingly complex mediations of public and private, and explores theoretical constructs gleaned from architectural thought and political theory, to derive ideas that are pertinent to our ...
  • Mediation through materiality in post-mediative practices 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is based on a conference paper presented at the 2010 SAJAH Conference at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. It poses some questions ...
  • Monument(al) meaning making in the "new" South Africa : Freedom Park as a symbol of a new identity and freedom? 
    Labuschagne, Pieter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Freedom Park was established as part of a postcolonial reconstruction of monuments to honour those who sacrificed their lives for freedom, as well as to enhance reconciliation and nation building in South Africa. The aim ...
  • The recovery of dialogue 
    Deane, Darren R. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The cultural richness that once made Leonardo’s "Paragone" possible quickly waned in the wake of the 18th century separation of natural science and fine art into competing systems of knowledge, leaving architects to contend ...
  • Toward the poetic in architecture 
    Auret, Hendrik (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The Poetics of architecture addresses the “making of architecture” simultaneously as an act of physical construction and a mental act of construing. In the past it has been investigated as a scientific (rational) or artistic ...
  • Towards a dialogical design studio : mediating absurdities in undergraduate architectural education in South Africa 
    Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The design studio is a key component of architectural education. In South African universities, the design studio tends to be dominated by what I call the Apprenticeship Studio. This teaching approach establishes the ...
  • A typology for 'waenhuise' in the vernacular farm architecture of the trans-Vaal River region 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The word ‘waenhuis’ has become synonymous for what is also referred to as a ‘wagon shed.’ Eventually, the term will disappear as the building’s association with wagons becomes less obvious. At the same time ‘waenhuise’ ...