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  • Gabriel Fagan's 90th birthday exhibition 
    Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson (South African Institute of Architects, 2016-01)
    On 4 November 2015, I opened Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan’s 90th birthday exhibition1 at the CifA offices. It was a tribute to his architectural production and time as a seminal SA architect.
  • Gerard Moerdijk - death and memorializing in his architecture for the Afrikaner nationalist project 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The oeuvre of Gerard Moerdijk, as practitioner and self-proclaimed architect to the Afrikaner Nationalist Project, used the opportunity of the memorializing of deceased personages taken up in the epic narrative of Afrikaner ...
  • Gerard Moerdijk - the formative years 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Allen, N.P.L. (Nicholas P.L.); Mare, Estelle Alma; Steyn, Gerald; Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Group of South Africa, 2003)
    In this article Moerdijk's early architectual career is paralleled with the chronological sequence of texts that express his concerns with developing an authentic South African style. In these we discover those significant ...
  • Ground-level documentation of heat stress exposure and response strategies in informal settlements in Tshwane, South Africa 
    Hugo, Jan; Sonnendecker, Paul Walter (Emerald, 2024)
    PURPOSE – The adverse impacts of climate change coupled with rapid informal urbanization in the Southern African region are increasing the vulnerability of already sensitive population groups. Consequently, these urban ...
  • The Hanoak House as a flexible and adaptable vernacular precedent for modern architecture 
    Hugo, Jan Marais (International Information and Engineering Technology Association, 2021-08)
    Globally the adverse effects of climate change necessitate the implementation of resilient systems that respond to escalating weather fluctuations and increased urban vulnerability. This requires a shift from the traditional ...
  • Heat stress : adaptation measures in South African informal settlements 
    Hugo, Jan Marais (Ubiquity Press, 2023-01-12)
    Globally extreme weather events are experienced most acutely in cities. While formal settlements can respond to such events, informal settlements are often vulnerable and illprepared. Sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly ...
  • Heterotrophic syntheses : mediation in the domestic architecture of Gabriël Fagan 
    Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan (1925) is a leading South African architect. His architecture is regionally rooted and can be described as a "new" architectural language that mediates between a love of the Cape vernacular, functional ...
  • Historicism as an aspect of a pragmatist theory of architecture 
    Coetzee, Anton (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    In this essay an attempt is made to validate the historicist theories that architectural practices change over time and that architecture can be interpreted as manifestations of the beliefs existing in particular communities ...
  • Homage to the right angle : an exploration of house_derick 
    Peres, Edna (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 ...
  • How enduring South African architects' firms got there 
    Vosloo, Christo; Vosloo, Pieter Tobias; Antonites, Alexander Josef (South African Institute of Architects, 2017-11)
    This article reports on a qualitative study into the actions, practices and attitudes that allowed a sample of South African architects’ firms to be regarded as enduring. Architects considering starting their own ...
  • Ideals and contingencies : Die Wilgers Medical Centre, Pretoria 
    Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson (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 ...
  • Impact of urban renewal changes on urban landscape identity : case study of Kisum City, Kenya 
    K'oyoo, Edwin Oluoch (University of the Free State, 2023-06-27)
    Urban renewal undertaken to respond to physical deterioration and decay within cities resulted in various changes. The changes can impact on physical, socio-economic, and meaning aspects attached to various features, thus ...
  • Incidental great public spaces and the role of urban design in South Africa 
    Schoulund, Dario; Landman, Karina (University of the Free State, Department of Town and Regional Planning, 2018)
    Urban Design in South Africa as a formal profession has a relatively short history. However, in practice, there have been many examples of what must be considered both good and bad Urban Design. There have also been ...
  • The industrial archaeology of the NZASM in South Africa and some of its unique artefactual residue 
    Clarke, Nicholas John; Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2018-09)
    Industrial archaeology”, according to the Nizhny Tagil Charter for Industrial Heritage (2003) of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), the world organisation representing ...
  • Intangible and tangible landscapes : an anthropological perspective based on two South African case studies 
    Muller, Liana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The relationship between landscape and culture, or landscape and memory, is a developing discourse in anthropological and other cross-disciplinary fields in recent years. During the late nineties, tangible and intangible ...
  • An interpretation of the role of meaning in interior design 
    Konigk, Raymund (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 ...
  • Is it immaterial? Matters of architectural matter 
    De Bruyn, Derick (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 ...
  • Isivivane, Freedom Park : a critical analysis of the relationship between commemoration, meaning and landscape design in post-apartheid South Africa 
    Young, Graham A.; Vosloo, Pieter Tobias (University of the Free State, 2020)
    At the dawn of democracy in 1994, the nation was seeking a new identity and for many South Africans it was to be an identity based on their African culture and tradition. Politicians were seeking ways to commemorate ...
  • I’m not there : on the ex-situ experience of landscape architecture in texts 
    Prinsloo, Johan Nel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    An understanding of the relationship between text and landscape can benefit those who design and envisage landscapes to create places – physical or imagined – that have meanings beyond the veneer. It is argued that ...
  • Knocking at the door 
    Botes, Nico (South African Institute of Architects, 2015-11)
    T his article highlights the general lack of awareness of the design professions in the built environment – even among prospective students of architecture – and investigates opportunities to address this shortcoming, ...