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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)In 1941, a new Dutch Reformed church was built in Pretoria West to the design of Gerard Moerdijk. The "Neo-Byzantine" design, developed and defined by Moerdijk homself, was not regarded by everybody as suitable for a ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)South Africans have rich, complex and unique histories. Current South African society is similarly unique, non-monolithic and complex. The last twelve years of Democracy have not resulted in a coconstructed vision of how ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)The Victorian notion of beauty was encapsulated in their obsession with the ideology of respectability. Respectability, a complex combination of moral, religious, economic and cultural systems,was organised around an ...
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2007-06)Op 5 Maart 1849 skryf aartsdeken N.J. Merriman (1809-1882) op een van sy eerste togte om met sy nuwe parogie in die Oos-Kaap vertroud te raak, dat 'n klompie Maleiers hulle in Port Elizabeth en Uitenhage bevind het. Van ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)This article investigates light control devices in architecture and nature searching for possible improvements and inspirations in architectural design. The article will briefly evaluate sun breakers and louvers as well ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)The paper is motivated by Krzysztof Wodiczko’s public artwork. Wodiczko has been projecting images and videos into architectural facades that interfere with the social and cultural context. The intention of this study is ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)In this paper it is argued that contemporary architectural and urban space has become impoverished through the hegemony of a formalistic approach in architecture and urban design, and Modernism’s separation of subject and ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)From the beginning of the 16th century Ilha de Moçambique [Mozambique Island] represented for the Portuguese the most important port of call in the Carreira da Índia, the round voyage between Portugal and India. After the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)This paper aims to broaden the debate on dynamics that influence urban space formation, as a means to a better understanding and as a reference for the South African context. The dynamics that determine the formation of ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s quotidian theories, space making is explored as an expression of a society’s collective mind. Spatial understanding is a function of culture. Spatial ability is the capacity to interpret knowledge ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)The Le Morne Brabant Peninsula in south-western Mauritius is known for the imposing mountain of Le Morne that dominates the natural landscape. The peninsula is a contested place. During the time of slavery, the place was ...
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(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 ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2008-03)During its "golden age" Portugal amazed the world with its great voyages of discovery. It was therefore appropriate that an epic poet of the time should record the achievements of his contemporaries for posterity. That ...
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2008-11)In the twentieth century most Afrikaans Reformed churches were designed by architects who were also members of these congregations. Until the middle of the century there were no clear-cut directives for the outward ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)The paper lays emphasis on the importance of contextual understanding and interpretation for design purposes. It argues for the incorporation of concrete, living and changing realities in the analysis and design of the ...
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(The Physical Development Sciences, University of the Free State, 2009)Since the demise of apartheid in 1994 South Africa has undergone tremendous transformation, both political and societal. Evidence of this is the constitution, which was adopted in 1996 and is considered to be one of the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)This article focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body and his explications of the body as mediator of the world. Merleau-Ponty's notion of the body which projects the cultural world around it by means ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)This article argues that the educational power of botanical gardens goes beyond the scientific collection of data but also makes use of the artistic influence of the garden through the perception and experience of the user. ...
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