Space as ritual : rethinking spatial strategies in the African city

dc.contributor.authorVan Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes
dc.contributor.authorDa Costa, Mary-Anne
dc.contributor.emailrudolf.vanrensburg@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-15T07:09:59Z
dc.date.available2009-04-15T07:09:59Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn this paper it is argued that contemporary architectural and urban space has become impoverished through the hegemony of a formalistic approach in architecture and urban design, and Modernism’s separation of subject and object. This has resulted in the loss of the (human) body and bodily experience as determinants in the spatial production of the African city. In addressing these issues a temporal dynamic reading of spatial construction is suggested, supported by new strategies in analyzing spatial conditions and taking account of the social event as a constituting influence.en
dc.description.abstractIn hierdie artikel word geargumenteer dat kontemporêre argitektoniese en stedelike ruimte verarm geraak het as gevolg van die oorheersing van ’n formalistiese benadering in argitektuur en stedelike ontwerp, en die verwydering wat as gevolg van Modernisme tussen objek en subjek ontstaan het. Die gevolg hiervan is die verlies van die (menslike) liggaam en ligaamlike ervaring as bepalende faktore in die ruimtelike produksie van die Afrika-stad. Om hierdie kwessies aan te spreek word voorgestel dat ’n temporele, dinamiese beskouing van ruimtekonstruksie nodig is, ondersteun deur nuwe strategieë waarvolgens ruimtelike omstandighede wat sosiale gebeurtenis as vormende invloed in ag neem, geanaliseer kan word.af
dc.identifier.citationVan Rensburg, RJ & Da Costa, M-A 2008, 'Space as ritual: rethinking spatial strategies in the African city', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 43-55. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/9629
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectBodily experienceen
dc.subjectSpatial constructionen
dc.subject.lcshSpace (Architecture)en
dc.subject.lcshPlace (Philosophy) in architectureen
dc.subject.lcshCities and towns -- Africaen
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture, Modernen
dc.subject.lcshPublic spaces -- Design -- Africaen
dc.subject.lcshPublic architecture -- Social aspects -- Africaen
dc.subject.lcshModern movement (Architecture)en
dc.titleSpace as ritual : rethinking spatial strategies in the African cityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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