Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 26 (2011) by Subject "Architecture -- Philosophy"

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 26 (2011) by Subject "Architecture -- Philosophy"

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  • Interpretative violence and Jacques Derrida’s professed love of ruins 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In this paper I examine two texts by Jacques Derrida, written at the beginning of 1990s, his “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority” and Memoirs of the Blind: The Self Portrait and Other Ruins written on the ...
  • Le Corbusier’s research-based design approaches 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The ability to convincingly demonstrate the integration of and reciprocal dynamic between research and product in design assignments is now a prerequisite at most institutions of architectural learning. Due to the creative ...
  • The role of photography, place and memory in gallery and museum design 
    Verster, Wanda (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The relationship between photography and the way place is interpreted through photographers is discussed, with reference to phenomenological theory, especially the work of Norberg-Schultz. Peter Zumthor’s interpretations ...
  • ‘Sustainable’ architecture and the ‘law’ of the fourfold 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    There are several senses in which one can understand a constellation that is set up between architecture and the ‘law’, the most salient of which is the way that the former is influenced, or directed, by laws of different ...