Modern Movement mediations: brazilian Modernism and the identity of post-war Architecture in Pretoria, South Africa
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https://doi.org/10.18830/issn.1679-0944.n18.2017.04Keywords:
Modern Movement, Brazil Builds, Hellmut stauch, Oscar NiemeyerAbstract
The brazilian architecture of Oscar Niemeyer inspired the design of a number of South African buildings. This article will contextualise modern movement mediations and will highlight similarities in approach to identity, context and a range of efficiencies through a comparison of Oscar Niemeyer's 1945 Ministry of Education and Health Building in Rio de Janeiro and Helmut Stauch's 1952 Meat Board Building in Pretoria.
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Contemporary capital: an architectural journal. Pretoria: Visual Books, 2011.
COOKE, J. A biographical history: Helmutt (sic) Stauch. In Beck, H. (ed.). UIA International Architect: Southern Africa, (8), p. 61, 1985.
COOKE, J. Revisions of the Modern. In Architecture of the Transvaal. Edited by R.C. Fisher & S. le Roux with E. Maré. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1998, p. 231-251.
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CURTIS, W. Modern Architecture since 1900. London: Phaidon, 1996.
DE BEER, I. Brazil. In Architecture 2000. Edited by I. Prinsloo. Johannesburg: Picasso Headline, p. 109-110, 2000.
FAGAN, G.T. & G. Interview with the author on 26 March 2008. 156 Bree Street, Cape Town, 2008.
FASSLER, J. Contemporary Architecture in South Africa. Architectural Design. June (6), p. 176-179, 1956.
FISHER, R.C. The Third vernacular. Pretoria Regionalism - aspects of an emergence. In Architecture of the Transvaal. Edited by R.C. Fisher & S. le Roux with E. Maré. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1998, p. 123-147.
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GERNEKE, G. From Brazil to Pretoria ”“ The Second Wave of the Modern Movement. In Architecture of the Transvaal, First edition, edited by R.C. Fisher, S. le Roux & E. Mare. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1998, p. 216-217 & 224 ill.
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HERBERT, G. Martienssen and the International Style: the modern movement in South African Architecture. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1975.
HEYNEN, H. Architecture and Modernity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
HOWIE, W.D. 'The Meat Board building, Pretoria'. South African Architectural Record, September, p. 212-222, 1952.
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MCINTOSH, W.G. Pretoria's architecture: present and future. South African Architectural Record, May, p. 22-23, 1956.
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PETERS, W. Houses for Pretoria. In Architecture of the Transvaal. Edited by R.C. Fisher & S. le Roux with E. Maré. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1998, 175-195.
PETERS, W. The importance of the '30s in the Domestic Architecture of Hellmut Stauch. Architecture South Africa, January/February, p. 23-29, 1987.
PEVSNER, N. Johannesburg: Meat Board Building. The Architectural Review. Vol. 113. Number 678. June, p. 375, 1953.
PRINSLOO, I. (ed.). Architecture 2000: A review of South African Architecture. Johannesburg: Picasso Headline, 2000.
SILVERMAN, M. 'Ons bou vir die Bank': Nationalism, architecture and Volkskas Bank' in Blank, Architecture Apartheid and After. 1999, p. 129-143.
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STAUCH, H.W.E. 'A modern office building'. REPRINT: Public Works of South Africa, July p. 1-8, 1951.
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Barker, A. A. (2017). Modern Movement mediations: brazilian Modernism and the identity of post-war Architecture in Pretoria, South Africa. Paranoá, 10(18). https://doi.org/10.18830/issn.1679-0944.n18.2017.04
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