Browsing Architecture by UP Author "Fisher, Roger C."

Browsing Architecture by UP Author "Fisher, Roger C."

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  • Netherlands Bank building, Pretoria : photos 
    Fisher, Roger C. (2009-05-06)
    Photographs showing the Architectural detail of the main office building of the Netherlands Bank of South Africa Ltd. otherwise known as Nedbank, in Pretoria, South Africa
  • Netherlands Bank building, Pretoria : photos 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Eaton, Norman, 1902-1966 (2009-04-06)
    Photographs showing architectural details in the main office building of the Netherlands Bank of South Africa Ltd. otherwise known as Nedbank.
  • Netherlands Bank building, Pretoria : photos 
    Fisher, Roger C. (2009-04-06)
    Photographs showing in great detail the main office building of the Netherlands Bank of South Africa Ltd. otherwise known as Nedbank.
  • Netherlands Bank building, Pretoria : photos 
    Fisher, Roger C. (2009-04-09)
    Photographs showing in great detail the main office building of the Netherlands Bank of South Africa Ltd. otherwise known as Nedbank.
  • Netherlands Bank building, Pretoria : photos 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Eaton, Norman, 1902-1966 (2009-05-06)
    Photographs showing in great detail the architectural detail of the main office building of the Netherlands Bank of South Africa Ltd. otherwise known as Nedbank.
  • Netherlands Bank building, Pretoria : photos 
    Fisher, Roger C. (2009-03-12)
    Photographs showing in great detail the main office building of the Netherlands Bank of South Africa Ltd. otherwise known as Nedbank.
  • 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.
  • RED in architecture - an ecotropic approach 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (The South African Institute of Architects, 2011)
    This paper explores the manner in which ideas of resource efficiency is taught to design students through the principles of iteration and generative design within a framework of ecosystemic thinking.
  • Role of landscape designers in promoting a balanced approach to green infrastructure 
    Breed, Christina A.; Cilliers, Sarel S.; Fisher, Roger C. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015-09)
    The importance accorded to green infrastructure is related to sociocultural values, which also affect the social production of ecosystem services. The literature distinguishes four categories of ecosystem services to be ...
  • Sephton Manor - the making of a type 
    Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem); Fisher, Roger C. (Picasso Headline (Pty) Ltd, 1995-08)
    The essay attempts to determine the significant contributions to the making of a type, that is the fortified frontier farmstead, in the annals of South African architectural history. It is associated with a specific time ...
  • Some observations on architecture's precocious prodigies and two of South Africa's own 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2015-01)
    Was it scientific biographer Abraham Pais who wrote, ‘If Einstein had stopped doing physics in the year 1925 and had gone fishing, he would be just as beloved, just as great. It would not have made a damn bit of ...
  • Teaching architectural history - should there be coursework in history in the South African architectural curriculum? 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-05)
  • Thibault as revolutionary architect 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Holm, Dietmar Erik (South African journal of cultural and art history, 1989)
    Article written by RC Fisher and D Holm postulating a hypothesis for acknowledging Louis Micheal Thibault as a Revolutionary architect instead of a Palladian Classicist.
  • Three iconologies of the boer dwelling 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Society of Cultural History, 1996-05)
    In this essay the graphic representation of the boer dwelling by three artists, namely Rembrandt van Rijn of the middle seventeenth century, Francois le Valliant of the late eighteenth century and 'Henk 'Pierneef of the ...
  • The Union Buildings: reflections on Herbert Baker's design intentions and unrealised designs 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Avital, Tsion; Glatigny, Pascal Dubourg; Mcquillan, James; Olivier, Bert; Shaw, Rayford; Schmidt, Leoni; Allen, N.P.L. (Nicholas P.L.); Mare, Estelle Alma; Unknown (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2004)
    When assessing the architectural merits of the Union Buildings the design thinking of Herbert Baker should be considered. He expressed himself on these matters in various texts throughout his productive years. Not all ...
  • Urban vernacular : House Najmeh, Johannesburg 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-03)
    The practice of architecture, much as the human mind itself, would seem to occupy two domains, that of the rational and that of the romantic. The fact of the matter is not that there is a dualism or dichotomy, ...