The role of the second architect on a significant building site

dc.contributor.authorMare, Estelle Alma
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-09T12:22:54Z
dc.date.available2015-07-09T12:22:54Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis article expounds Edmond Bacon’s “principle of the second man”, formulated in his Design of Cities (1967), as a criterion for judging the addition of another building or additional architectural structures a on a significant building site. This principle basically implies that an architect who designs a new building for a site on which a significant building already exists, or a group of buildings that spatially belong together already exist, should not detract from the merit of the work of the first architect, but, also in the case of the restoration or addition to the original, should blend the new structure with the old, not necessarily by imitation or copying. This is a test for an architect’s creative ingenuity and moral responsibility, because a disharmonious architectural addition on an established site can destroy its sense of place. In broad terms, a site that may be considered as architecturally significant can be identified in various ways: it could be an enclosed space, such as most city squares in which a historically important building has pride of place; it could be a historical or culturally significance space in which a sense of place has already been established and reinforced architecturally, or, furthermore, in the case of cities regulated by law with respect to building materials, construction practices or design to ensure uniform aesthetic norms and homogenous cityscapes. On sites with a meaningful urban tradition the designs of second architects may be considered successful if they do not only not distract from the primacy of the existing main building or group of buildings that established and conserves the sense of place of the site, but instead reinforces or enhances its architectural merit and the perceptual unity of the group design.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn hierdie artikel word verder geteoretiseer oor Edmond Bacon se “beginsel van die tweede argitek wathy in sy Design of Cities (1967) geformuleer het as ’n kriterium vir die beoordeling van die toevoeging van ’ngebou of bykomendeargitektoniese strukture op ’n belangrike bouterrein. Hierdie beginsel impliseer basies dat ’n argitek wat ’n nuwe gebou ontwerp vir ’n terrein waarop daar reeds ’n belangrike gebou of ’n groep geboue wat ruimtelik saam hoort, bestaan, nie aan die meriete van die eerste argitek nie afbreuk behoort te doen nie, maar om die nuwe struktuur, ook in die geval van die restourasie van of aanbouing, by die reeds bestaade aan te pas, nie noodwendig deur nabooting of kopiëring nie. Dit is ’n toets vir ’n argitek se kreatiewe vindingrykheid en morele verantwoordelikheid, want ’n onharmoniese argitektoniese byvoeging op ’n gevestigde terrein kan die pleksin daarvan benadeel. In breë trekke kan ’n terrein wat as argitektonies belangrik beskou kan word, op verskillende maniere uitgeken word: dit kan ’n afgesluite ruimte wees soos die meeste stadspleine waar ’n geskiedkundig belangrike gehou aansien geniet; dit kan ’n geskiedkundig- of kultureel-belangrike ruimte wees waar die pleksin reeds gevestig of herbevestig is, of, in nog ’n instansie, in die geval van stede ten aansien waarvan die gebruik van boumateriaal, konstruksiemetodes of ontwerp wetlik beheer word met die doel om eenvormige estetiese norme en homogene stadslandskappe te verseker. Op terreine met ’n betekenisvolle stedelike tradisie kan die ontwerpe van tweede argitekte as geslaagd beskou word indien dit nie net nie afbreuk doen aan die voorrang van die bestaande gebou of groep geboue wat die pleksin gevestig het en steeds bewaar nie, maar daartoe bydra om die argitektoniese meriete en perseptuele eenheid van die groepontwerp van die terrein te bewaar of te verhoog.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/sajahen_ZA
dc.format.extent26 Pagesen_ZA
dc.format.mediumPDFen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMare, EA 2014, 'The role of the second architect on a significant building site', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 180-205. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/46858
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectSecond architecten_ZA
dc.subjectEdmond Baconen_ZA
dc.subjectArchitectural sense of placeen_ZA
dc.subjectGroup Designen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshArt -- History
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture -- History
dc.titleThe role of the second architect on a significant building siteen_ZA
dc.title.alternativeDie rol van die tweede argitek op ’n belangtike bouterreinen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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