Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings

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dc.contributor.advisor Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes en
dc.contributor.postgraduate Theron, Patricia en
dc.date.accessioned 2016-06-22T13:55:03Z
dc.date.available 2016-06-22T13:55:03Z
dc.date.issued 2015 en
dc.description Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2015. en
dc.description.abstract A Political Theatre, Think Tank and School of Representation at the Union Buildings are created in response to questions regarding identity, authenticity and authority within post-1994 South African Architecture. The design is investigated by means of a journey through power, the urban and the memory of architecture. Autonomy is proposed as a more appropriate means of representing power constructions than the often-quoted riposte of transparency. The project of the Italian Rationalists is remembered and through it, the productive repetition that is an inherent aspect of typological design is harnessed in order to return power to form. All form is situated within a process of eternal return, and defamiliarisation is utilised as a strategy to ask questions about and through architecture. The interface between land and building is cast in a hierarchical role, where architecture becomes a mask to the landscape as an analogy for the political mask and the various guises assumed in the representation of identities, both personal and architectural. en
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dc.description.degree MArch(Prof) en
dc.description.department Architecture en
dc.description.librarian tm2016 en
dc.identifier.citation Theron, P 2015, Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings, MArch(Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53346> en
dc.identifier.other A2016 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53346
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria en_ZA
dc.rights © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. en
dc.subject UCTD en
dc.title Interface : a new political landscape at the union buildings en
dc.type Mini Dissertation en


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