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

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

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  • The architect as patron 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-07)
    It is well known that architects need patrons, otherwise they would have no commissions. However, many a successful architect has in turn become a patron to his own profession, either in his lifetime or through ...
  • Architects without architecture - architects and the art of photography 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-09)
    I was recently asked to write a postlude of Carla Crafford’s (née Hartman) forthcoming limited edition retrospective monograph. That got me thinking about the role of photography in architecture.
  • Architects without architecture - the architect as illustrator 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-05)
    While most architects are not only catholic in taste, they are also often artistic in temperament and multitalented. Most are schooled in the representation of buildings, a few turn this into high art – the art ...
  • Architecture and the academy - the research imperative 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2015-11)
    According to a position paper accepted by the Research Committee of the Royal Institute of British Architects and presented by Jeremy Till, several enduring myths about architecture and research perpetuate an ever-widening ...
  • Baker and Moerdijk – a shared legacy apart 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    This article presents Gerard Moerdijk’s response to the challenges posed by the legacy of Herbert Baker in South Africa, through, firstly, those aspects of an architecture derived from regional response, namely local style ...
  • The century celebrations of the Union Buildings 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-03)
    They came in their thousands to pay homage, with many eventually being turned away. As Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918–2013) lay in state, the significance and meaning of the Union Buildings seemed yet again to ...
  • The corbelled stone structures of Glenfield Farm, Salem - some interpretations revisited 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Various postulates concerning the origin and purpose of the corbelled structures in the vicinity of the Assegaaibos River on the farms Farmerfield, Glenfield and Springfield, Eastern Cape Province (previously Albany District) ...
  • Cultural hybridity in the teaching of architecture within a decolonised society 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Lange, Mary E.; Nkambule, Mbongiseni Emmanuel Nathi (Universidade de Brasília, 2017)
    Descolonizar o ensino-aprendizagem em Arquitetura requer questionar o que é pertinente a uma sociedade multiracial, multicultural e multi-liguistica e ao mesmo tempo adequado a uma disciplina internacionalista. Examinamos ...
  • Death, cremation and columbaria in the culture of Dutch Christian Calvinist South Africa 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    From the earliest days of South African colonisation - through the offices of the VOC - there was the hegemony of Calvinist belief as it manifests in Dutch Reformed Protestantism in which death was preordained, inevitable ...
  • An ecosystemic sense of architectural style 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Picasso Headline (Pty) Ltd, 1993-02)
  • Fortified frontier farmhouses: English precedent for the Eastern Cape 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Booysen, J. (South African Society of Cultural History, 1994)
    As an introduction to this essay, observations made by English settlers on the landscape of the Eastern Cape are quoted. In this way a link is forged with their homeland. The Eastern Cape, an area to become a zone of dispute ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Moerdijk and the shadow of Baker 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    Moerdijk, in his formative years as architect, held Baker and his patron, Rhodes, in high regard. But in his maturity he made little, if any reference to Baker’s influence or even legacy in the making of South African ...
  • Norman Eaton - some influences on his insights 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Society of Cultural History, 1997-11)
    Eaton as progenitor of Pretoria Regionalism - a place-specific architecture - spent his formative years within an identifiable context, namely Pretoria, its peoples and its landscape. His relationship with his mentor, ...
  • Notes on the architect as editor and the associated SA journals 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2015-05)
    WITH THIS ISSUE of Architecture South Africa, we take leave of Julian Cooke as editor of both the magazine and the journal of the South African Institute of Architects. Julian Cooke’s first stint commenced with the ...
  • The paradigm as an intellectual model 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Department of Education and Culture, 1989-12)
    This paper is based on a dissertation in preparation: 'A paradigmatic approach to architectural history: postmodernism', for an MArch degree in the Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria.
  • A paradigmatic teaching of architectural history 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Sasol Library, University of the Free State, 1993-03)
    This essay proposes an approach to the teaching of the history of architecture, here termed the paradigmatic approach. It derives from an understanding of Kuhn's "paradigm', and the consequent stratification of Western ...
  • The recycling of the Thesen Island Boiler House as Hotel 
    Louw, Mike; Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2011-01)
    Please read abstract available in article.