Browsing Architecture by Type "Article"

Browsing Architecture by Type "Article"

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  • The application of surface geometry to works of art as an aid in the exegesis of the visual image : the case for and against 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    The application of geometric configurations to the surfaces of architectural elevations, reproductions of classical vases and sculpture, and Renaissance paintings based on perspective, for the purpose of revealing structural ...
  • An appraisal of selected examples of Gerhard [Gerard] Moerdijk's work (1890-1958) 
    Jooste, Johan K. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2000)
    Gerhard [Gerard] Moerdijk (1890-1958) was one of the first practising Afrikaans-speaking architects. He was active from 1917 until the early fifties during which time he and his partners realized a large body of work - ...
  • 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 ...
  • Architectology® : architectural knowledge construction 
    Concepcion Diez-Pastor, M. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Recent theoretical debates on the sources of architectural knowledge tend to dissect architecture into a set of atomized disciplines, or else define it as a multidisciplinary matter. Such are for instance the most recent ...
  • 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 ...
  • Architectural needs of South Africa 
    Baker, Herbert, Sir, 1862-1946 (State, 1909-01-01)
    The purpose of this paper is to plead for the revival in the laying out and designing of our cities and buildings of those principles of largeness of conception, restraint, and subordination of detail to a central idea ...
  • Architecture : a self referential sign or a way of thought? Peter Eisenman’s encounter with Jacques Derrida 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Peter Eisenman’s relation with deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida, in particular, has been documented not solely by the architect himself but also by several other authors. However, the actual dialogue between ...
  • 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 ...
  • Architecture and the othe[r]eal 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper presents a reading of the Northern Cape Legislature (by Luis Ferreira da Silva Architects, 1998) as a form of Magical Realist design, where the limits of established design (i.e. contemporary architecture) are ...
  • Architecture as consumer space 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The thought of Merleau-Ponty, Silverman, Marx and Marcuse is a valuable repository of insights that may function as guidelines for ascertaining what would count as truly ‘human’ space – that is, a space that does not ...
  • Architecture for life : exploring regenerative and resilience thinking 
    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 ...
  • Architecture's 'other' : an ontological reading of the abject relationship with interior design 
    Konigk, Raymund; Bakker, Karel Anthonie (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2012)
    Dialectic relationships exist between architecture and emergent architecturally informed disciplines. Interior design constitutes such a discipline and is considered a critical case study. The main problem is to investigate ...
  • Architecture, historicism and historiography 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper considers the legacy of historicism and debates within modern/post-modern historiography – especially in the work of Keith Jenkins, Michael Podro and Hayden White – and discusses how these crucial perspectives ...
  • Architecture, hybridities and post-apartheid design 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This chapter develops a methodological discussion on questions of hybridity in architectural theory and design, in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Reference is made to differing ideas of hybridity; from early ...
  • Are illegal squatters ruralising the urban edge? 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article was motivated by a claim in literature that migrants are ruralising Third World cities. It investigates the impacts of migration - the fact that all residents are from somewhere else - on the form and function ...
  • Aronofsky's subversion of mainstream cinema through the neo noir "Pi" (1998) 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    This article investigates how Aronofsky's Pi (1998) subverts the visual language of mainstream cinema and the mass media at both an overt level, through the use of alienating techniques that encourage the audience to ...
  • Art and sacral space 
    Stupples, Peter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    ‘Art’ was originally associated with sacral spaces for the enactment of rites that bound a community into a culture. The objects created as ‘art’ were also imitated by secular authorities, enacting their ceremonial rituals ...
  • Art and the dream of self-transcendence 
    Hurst, Andrea; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Given a fundamental ontology that takes materiality to be essentially “no-thingness”, I explore the claim that humans create art in response to the dream of self-transcendence. I unpack the paradoxical idea that transcendence ...
  • Art and the ethical today 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    What is art’s function today, in the early 21st century? It is argued here that, while art’s function has changed dramatically throughout history, its formal features are usually regarded as being paramount in ascertaining ...