Architectural Guide South Africa: Architectural Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783869222622)

This guide is a celebration of the works of professional architects in three South African metropolitan centres, namely Cape Town, Durban and the Johannesburg/Pretoria Axis. The content ranges from the early years of European settlement, where architects were trained by the military schools of engineering, through the period of apprenticeship either to a recognised practicing architect or in public works, to the twentieth century and beyond, where architects were regulated as professionals by legislation, as was their education. The projects selected are all secular, being either in the public domain or eye, and therefore readily accessible. This guide is structured along main themes, each historically located. Each episode or project type featured is highlighted by a representative from each metropolitan centre, each being discussed in broader detail alongside similar contemporaneous local examples. In total the guide features over a hundred-and-fifty projects with all salient information as to their dates of construction, designers and locality (by way of QR codes).

Author: Nicholas Clarke, Roger Fisher, Ingrid Stegmann
ISBN-10: 386922262X
ISBN-13: 9783869222622
Publisher: Dom Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2014
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.70h x 5.40w x 0.50d