Browsing Architecture by Subject "Identity"

Browsing Architecture by Subject "Identity"

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  • Architecture and identity : redefining the taxi industry 
    Mpye, Tebogo (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    Unlawful, renegade and detached, these are some of the metaphors that can be said to be the summation of the taxi industry. Albeit the taxi system predominantly operates as the chief transport mode, and economic enabler ...
  • Autobiography 
    August, Dustin Enrico Peter (University of Pretoria, 2013-12-09)
    Post Apartheid freedom architecture constructs new narratives and encounters with our past. Often representing the collective memory, these spaces exclude peripheral memories, displaced communities and negate engaging with ...
  • black grey white : to pimp a butterfly 
    Waleng, Katlego David (University of Pretoria, 2019-11-29)
    Barker (2015) argues that the making of architecture is a mediative approach to understanding the relationship between the strange and the familiar. He regards this processes as an act which gives an identity to the ...
  • Exhibiting timeliness in temporal conditions 
    Van Den Berg, Lindy J. (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    The focus of this dissertation is on the exploration of interior environments subjected to constant change. This study will investigate the ability of interior design to relate and respond to internal and external ...
  • Gather. emerging identities through event design at Salvokop 
    Maree, Simone (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The design proposes a satellite event of the 2019 Presidential Inauguration conceived as a public gathering that takes place in Salvokop, Pretoria. A bilateral approach will be adopted. Firstly, implementing event as a ...
  • Globalisation, vernacularisasion and the invention of identities 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Architects are adamant that academic qualifications are a prerequisite for design competence. It is therefore ironic that vernacular architecture is having a significant impact on contemporary architectural design ...
  • Grace under pressure : investigating a design response in event of disaster 
    O'Neil, Elonah (University of Pretoria, 2010-02-03)
    A study of local context has revealed that universal relief strategies are failing to meet the needs of those who have just lived through the traumatic experience of losing their primary dwelling. Where as conventional ...
  • Hybrid Ecological Identification 
    Kruger, Gustav (University of Pretoria, 2019)
    Hybrid Ecological Identification investigates the notion of representing African identity in architecture. This dissertation aims to contribute to the limited discussion on the hybridity between Western and African ...
  • Identity in architecture and art : Versailles, Giverny and Gyeongju 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the different “identities” projected by the palace and gardens of Versailles, the house and garden of Claude Monet in Giverny (France), and Mount Namsan in (South) Korea. It is argued that the palace ...
  • Learn 2 live - live 2 learn : the re-use of the UP Mamelodi campus and the stitching together of landscapes as a vehicle for empowerment 
    Bandini, Mirella (University of Pretoria, 2008)
    Mamelodi is a multi-cultural township located 20kms east of the Tshwane city centre. It is a vibrant and complex place, alive with opportunity, diversity, talent and creativity. It is also however, afflicted by many problems, ...
  • Liquid identity-fountains valley : the origins of a city 
    Myburgh, Albert (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    Pretoria is a city that was founded upon the abundant availability of fresh water. The source of this water can be found in a valley just south of the city centre, today known as Fountains Valley. Here the water surfaces ...
  • Mtoni Palace : nurturing identity through landscape architecture 
    Tolsma, Jacquis R. (University of Pretoria, 2014)
    Zanzibar has become a well-known tourist destination with its spices, friendly people, beaches and year-round warm climate. The tourism industry has become one of the main economic sectors of the island and provides ...
  • On the question of architecture and identity, in post-apartheid South Africa 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Considerations as to personal and group identity seem to be everywhere these days, in the national news, in the latest pop/rap video and with respect to the very clothes that we choose to wear. Significantly, in ...
  • Re-Location : discovering memory and meaning in Marabastad - a trade school 
    Whitcomb, Candice (University of Pretoria, 2010)
    This research dissertation explores how memory can be used as a design tool when dealing with sites or places that have undergone political oppression in the past. It aims to explore the ways in which memory can inform and ...
  • Social housing with interior public spaces : a new typology for the urban context of Pretoria 
    Heÿdenrÿch, Antonette (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The project proposes the investigation into the adaptive re-use of abandoned and unused buildings in the Pretoria CBD to develop social housing that makes use of existing infrastructure, structures, economic activity ...
  • Thoughts on the role of architects in two African contexts: the re-making of urban identity 
    Osman, Amira (2008)
    How architectural practice is influenced by and influences the contexts of two African countries is explored. This is a comparative study of architectural issues in two contexts where urban identity is being drastically ...
  • YoUrban living room : interaction and identity in Esselen Street, Trevenna 
    Petzsch, Elzbeth E (University of Pretoria, 2012)
    The phenomenon of urban identity escapes narrow definition. Its relevance to the interior design context arises as a tool for regeneration where it can assist to capitalize on the potential of particular places and social ...
  • Zest for life - a student health and wellness centre 
    Vermeulen, Marilu (University of Pretoria, 2009-04-20)
    Health centres, like hospitals and clinics, tend to be unwelcome, sterile environments. This dissertation is about the making of a conventional and complementary health centre that aims to be a place-making building. This ...