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‘A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS,’ or so the saying goes. The inheritances of this phrase are attributed to a number of sources, including an ancient Chinese proverb, Napoleon Bonaparte (who remarked that ‘a ...

The demise of the Modern Movement resulted in a plethora of architectural responses. Venturi argued for 'Complexity and Contradiction' (1966) in architecture, while contrastingly, Rudofsky (1964) and Oliver (1969), in their ...

The University of Pretoria’s Department of Architecture has developed into one of the world’s top architecture and built environment educational institutions.

The design of boundaries in architecture has a rich history that provides intellectual nourishment for a reconsideration of the relationships between city and nature, city street and building and the transitions within ...

On 4 November 2015, I opened Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan’s 90th birthday exhibition1 at the CifA offices. It was a tribute to his architectural production and time as a seminal SA architect.

Innovation in architectural form is, unfortunately, rare these days as many designers unconsciously resort to the use of fashionable clichés or international precedent. It is refreshing, therefore, to come across uniqueness ...

It is widely acknowledged that the canonic architectural principles developed, in the late 1920s, by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887-1965), better known as Le Corbusier, had a profound effect on the built environment ...

A arquitetura brasileira de Oscar Niemeyer ins-pirou o desenho de um grande número de cons-truções sulafricanas. Este artigo contextualiza as mediações do movimento moderno e aponta similaridades em aproximação com a ...

Gawie Fagan and his wife, Gwen, have had an illustrious career in the field of architectural heritage practice, spanning a period of over 50 years. They have run the full gamut of responses to architectural heritage, from ...