Browsing Research Articles (Architecture) by UP Author "Fisher, Roger C."

Browsing Research Articles (Architecture) by UP Author "Fisher, Roger C."

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  • RED in architecture - an ecotropic approach 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (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.
  • Role of landscape designers in promoting a balanced approach to green infrastructure 
    Breed, Christina A.; Cilliers, Sarel S.; Fisher, Roger C. (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 ...
  • Sephton Manor - the making of a type 
    Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem); Fisher, Roger C. (Picasso Headline (Pty) Ltd, 1995-08)
    The essay attempts to determine the significant contributions to the making of a type, that is the fortified frontier farmstead, in the annals of South African architectural history. It is associated with a specific time ...
  • Some observations on architecture's precocious prodigies and two of South Africa's own 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2015-01)
    Was it scientific biographer Abraham Pais who wrote, ‘If Einstein had stopped doing physics in the year 1925 and had gone fishing, he would be just as beloved, just as great. It would not have made a damn bit of ...
  • Teaching architectural history - should there be coursework in history in the South African architectural curriculum? 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-05)
  • Thibault as revolutionary architect 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Holm, Dietmar Erik (South African journal of cultural and art history, 1989)
    Article written by RC Fisher and D Holm postulating a hypothesis for acknowledging Louis Micheal Thibault as a Revolutionary architect instead of a Palladian Classicist.
  • Three iconologies of the boer dwelling 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Society of Cultural History, 1996-05)
    In this essay the graphic representation of the boer dwelling by three artists, namely Rembrandt van Rijn of the middle seventeenth century, Francois le Valliant of the late eighteenth century and 'Henk 'Pierneef of the ...
  • Urban vernacular : House Najmeh, Johannesburg 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-03)
    The practice of architecture, much as the human mind itself, would seem to occupy two domains, that of the rational and that of the romantic. The fact of the matter is not that there is a dualism or dichotomy, ...
  • When first we practice to deceive - dubious and dutiful architects 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-11)
    It sounds as if it should be Shakespeare, but these lines are in fact taken from Marmion, an epic Scottish poem by Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden Field (1513), published in 1808. And it was written at around ...