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  • WELL-Learning : Promoting learner well-being through deployable schooling infrastructure 
    Van der Merwe, Twané (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    The diagnosis of the Sick Building Syndrome in the 1980s, raised concern for the effect of the built environment on its occupants. As adolescents spend ample time within learning environments, the design of schools, and ...
  • Weltevreden, Drakenstein 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-09-26)
    Drawings by Sir Herbert Baker of Weltevreden and associated Cape Dutch outbuildings in Drakenstein, which subsequently burnt down. The thatched buildings feature different gables: leg-o-mutton, straight and neoclassical.
  • Werdmuller centre – an artifact of an ephemeral context 
    Wolff, Ilze (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Cape Town’s Werdmuller Centre, an iconic modernist building designed by renowned architect, urbanist and teacher, Roelof Uytenbogaardt, is under threat of demolition. A questionable Heritage Impact Assessment conducted in ...
  • Werk aan Voortrekkermonument se fries begin eersdaags : grootste in wêreld 
    Unknown (1938)
    AFRIKAANS SUMMARY: Die muurvries in die Voortrekkermonument gaan die grootste in die wêreld wees en tonele uit die Groot Trek uitbeeld. Mej. Laurika Postma, mnre. Hennie Potgieter en F. J. Kruger, en dr. P Kirchhoff gaan ...
  • Wesleyan Church 
    Provenance photograph collection (Unknown)
  • Wesleyan Church, Andries Street, Pretoria, South Africa 
    (2013-09-06)
    Views of the Wesleyan Church situated on the eastern side of Andries Street, between Vermeulen and Church Streets, Pretoria, from 1894 to 1971.
  • West African influence on various projects by Le Corbusier 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article contributes to the renewed interest in Le Corbusier by exploring a proposition by the African American architect and scholar, Melvin Mitchell, that West African art and architecture had a decisive influence ...
  • West view, Selborne Hall 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (2008-08-01)
    Selborne Hall at the School of Agriculture in Potchefstroom, seen from the sports fields to the west. The design by Sir Herbert Baker was inspired by the Cape Dutch style.
  • Western limb tailings reclamation project 
    Van den Berg, Mader J (University of Pretoria, 2006-07-27)
    A new approach towards waste management in a mining environment is developed and applied. This dissertation specifically studies the storage and management of tailings in the platinum industry as well as the associated ...
  • Westerse interpretasie van die "genius loci" van Mgungundlovu 
    Lewis, Hester (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)
    Die noue skakeling wat argitektuur met die mens se leefwereld het, lei tot 'n bepaalde ervaring van 'n gebou of gebouekompleks. 'n Bepaalde 'genius loci', wat uit die sintese van die natuurlike en beboude omgewing ontstaan, ...
  • What is out of sight and un-foreseeable : Pieter Hugo's filtered images 
    Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is a continuation of my exploration of photography with reference to the dialectics of historicity and expectation, archive and performance, absence and presence, theatricality and antitheatricality, visibility ...
  • What our new station will look like 
    Unknown (Star, 1927-05-16)
    Front elevation of the Johannesburg Railway Station, designed by architects Gerard Moerdijk and Gordon Leith.
  • What remains: photographs, the corpse, and empty places 
    Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article explores the work of Sally Mann, Berni Searle, Ana Mendieta, and Shirin Neshat in relation to the trace-like emblem of the corpse. The corpse or corpse-like body is here read as allegorical of the body’s ...
  • What we WEAR: Alteration to support a circular economy driven by post-consumer textile waste generated by fast fashion. 
    De Beer, Sarlien (University of Pretoria, 2020)
    The value consumers attach to their clothing creates a high demand and frequent consumption of fast fashion. This results in the increase of post-consumer textile waste that ends up on landfills, which has a negative impact ...
  • When first we practice to deceive - dubious and dutiful architects 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-11)
    It sounds as if it should be Shakespeare, but these lines are in fact taken from Marmion, an epic Scottish poem by Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden Field (1513), published in 1808. And it was written at around ...
  • When the ‘Law’ no longer suffices: "Dexter" 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    What are the hidden underpinnings of what may broadly be described as ‘vigilante’ stories, such as those in popular television series or films? What leads one to suspect that there are such out-of-sight presuppositions on ...
  • Where is ‘utopia’ now : an exploration of contemporary Dutch utopian thought and art 
    Kruger, Runette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The term ‘utopia’ originated in 1516, when Thomas More christened his imaginary perfect society ‘Utopia’. The name combines the Greek terms eutopia (‘good place’) and outopia (‘perfect place’ or ’no place’). In this article, ...
  • White house 
    Unknown (2009-05-05)
    White house with veld and trees.
  • Wie was Afarm Smit? 
    Swanepoel, Rosa (2008-02-28)
    Bespreking van 'n foto van die vrywilligerwagte voor Krugerhuis in Kerkstraat, tussen Potgieter- en Schubartstrate.
  • Wildelife Research and Rehabilitation Facility 
    Lippi, Nadia (University of Pretoria, 2006-02-01)
    The purpose of the project is to evoke a sense of time and place in design. It is the investigation of the dynamic that develops between old architecture and a contemporary approach in refurbishment as well as the relationship ...