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Browsing Research Articles (Architecture) by UP Author "Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson"
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(South African Institute of Architects, 2019-01)
No abstract available.
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Peres, Edna; Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson; Du Plessis, Chrisna
(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-01)
As built environment theory evolves, so does the awareness that built environments form an integral part of natural systems. Living systems are capable of renewal and regeneration, resiliently adapting to pressures and ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-03)
‘A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND
WORDS,’ or so the saying goes.
The inheritances of this phrase are attributed
to a number of sources, including
an ancient Chinese proverb, Napoleon
Bonaparte (who remarked that ‘a ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(South African Institute of Architects, 2021-02)
About two years ago, two new and distinctly
different, but sensitively considered additions were
designed by Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Architects
for St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls (DSG) in
Hillcrest Pretoria. ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(The South African Institute of Architects, 2012-09)
The demise of the Modern Movement resulted in a plethora of architectural responses. Venturi argued for 'Complexity and Contradiction' (1966) in architecture, while contrastingly, Rudofsky (1964) and Oliver (1969), in their ...
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Hugo, Jan Marais; Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson; Stoffberg, Hennie
(SUNMeDIA, 2014)
This article describes strategic design decisions that architects can make during
the initial stages of a project to minimise the use of construction materials,
reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency. A ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(South African Institute of Architects, 2019-01)
The University of Pretoria’s Department of
Architecture has developed into one of the
world’s top architecture and built environment
educational institutions.
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
The domestic architecture of the seminal South African architect Gawie Fagan expresses a unique
technological inventiveness formed by a deep appreciation of the technical and haptic properties
and qualities of building ...
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Barker, A.A.J. (Arthur Adrian Johnson); Louw, Michael
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2022-12)
The design of boundaries in architecture has a rich history that provides intellectual nourishment
for a reconsideration of the relationships between city and nature, city street and building and the
transitions within ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(South African Institute of Architects, 2015-07)
HOUSE ROOKE at Monaghan Farm,
located near Lanseria in Gauteng, is an
architectural endeavour by client and
architect that extends regional architectural
traditions. In a time of architectural
blight, aesthetic confusion ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2020)
Heritage practitioners are increasingly facing the challenges of working in historic environments, as issues such as densification, resource depletion and the effects of climate change impact on city development, often at ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2015)
It is widely acknowledged that the canonic architectural principles developed, in the late 1920s, by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887-1965), better known as Le Corbusier, had a profound effect on the built environment ...
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Hugo, Jan Marais; Stoffberg, Hennie; Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(The Physical Development Sciences, University of the Free State, 2012-12)
This article investigates the role that architecture can play in mitigating climate change by comparing the environmental impact of construction material use in two existing South African Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(Universidade de Brasília, 2017)
A arquitetura brasileira de Oscar Niemeyer ins-pirou o desenho de um grande número de cons-truções sulafricanas. Este artigo contextualiza as mediações do movimento moderno e aponta similaridades em aproximação com a ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson; Swart, Johan
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2020-11)
The intellectual basis for preservation and conservation is formed by the study, record and dissemination of the works of
humanity. Due to the negative impacts of exponential city growth, through densification and the ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2021-01-01)
Gawie Fagan and his wife, Gwen, have had an illustrious career in the field of architectural heritage practice, spanning a period of over 50 years. They have run the full gamut of responses to architectural heritage, from ...
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Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan (1925-) is a leading South African architect. His architecture is regionally
rooted and can be described as a “new” architecture that mediates between a love of the Cape
vernacular, functional ...