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  • Wits as an open university, 1922-1959 
    Murray, B. K. (14-02-14T1)
  • Local Councillors: scapegoats for a dysfunctional participatory democratic system? Lessons from practices of local democracy in Johannesburg. 
    Benit Gbaffou, Claire (Critical Dialogue: Public Participation in Review., 208)
    This paper starts with the study of participation patterns in different neighbourhoods in Johannesburg, and demonstrates that institutional channels (be it representative democracy, or various participatory institutions ...
  • Prospect of the county at the Cape of Good Hope 
    Unknown author (G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1785)
  • South Africa / constructed and engraved by John Batholomew 
    Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893. (A & C Black, 1857)
    Inset: Continuation of Africa south of the equator showing Dr Livingston'e travels between 1849 and 1856. Plate XLIV-I from: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel ... by Sidney Hall, William Hughes ... New ...
  • Original map of the Transvaal or South-African Republic, including the gold and diamondfields. 
    Merensky, Alexander, 1837-1918 (Berlin : [A. Merensky], 1875., 1875)
    Shows "boundary of the tsetse fly. ; From the best sources and documents, especially from sourveys [sic] by Mr. Mauch, Baines, Mohr, and others."
  • Plan of Johannesburg and suburbs 
    Melvill, B. W. (Grocott & Sherry., 1897)
    Plan of Johannesburg and suburbs, 1898
  • Transvaal and Orange Free State 1:250 000. 
    Great Britain.War Office.Intelligence Division.; Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section. (War Office. Intelligence Division, 1899)
    Series no. 1367 covers all of Orange Free State and most of Transvaal (not north of 24 degrees S.) in 28 sheets. Two versions held of most sheets; 1899 and then 1900 revision. Series produced during Boer War. No sheet ...
  • Map of parts ii, iii & iv of the Witwatersrand Magisterial District: showing electoral divisions ... 
    South Africa. Surveyor General's Office; Gilfillan, M. S.; Melvill, B. (Government Printer, 1908)
    Names of parts. 2. Braamfontein; 3. Doornfontein: 4 Klipriviersberg.. Compiled and drawn in the Surveyor General's Office. B. Melvill, Chief Draftsman ; M. S. Gilfillan, Surveyor General. This is plate 7 which was issued ...
  • Insurance plan of Johannesburg: South African Republic, South Africa, September 1895 
    Chas. E. Goad, Ltd. (Chas. E. Goad., 1910)
    Printing of 1895 updated with new sheets and revision stickers issued in June 1910 and with subtitle: Transvaal Colony. South Africa ... The activities or company name on each erf (stand) in every block in the central and ...
  • What is Architecture? 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Association of Transvaal Architects, the Natal Institute of Architects and the South African Institute of Quantity Surveyors, 1925-06)
    For music being purely in time, and architecture being purely in space, each is convertable into the other, and that which in music is expressed by means of harmonious intervals of time and pitch, successfully may be ...
  • Modern Architecture, with particular reference to shop design 
    Martienssen, Rex D (The Association of Transvaal Architects, the Natal Institute of Architects and the South African Institute of Quantity Surveyors, 1927-09)
    "The old order changeth," and architecture is undergoing a slow transition; slow because a bouleversement in architecture is almost impossible, but nevertheless steady, as viewpoints change, and requirements limit the scope ...
  • Reactions and Reflections 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1927-12)
    London. The place, Trafalgar Square; the time, a Sunday afternoon in January... Perfect repose save a few scurrying foot passengers, a few buses grumbling and bumping their way through the slush.
  • The Golden Road. Impressions of an Architectural Pilgrimage to the Cape. 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1928-06)
    "...The picture of a shady patch, of whitewashed wall, the scent of pressed grapes, the fantasy of a gable scroll are the treasures which refresh one after a pilgrimage to the Cape. ...
  • Ideals in Architecture 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1928-09)
    'No formula has yet been devised to obtain beauty in architecture. For beauty is not dependent on pure design. Forms nearly approaching the ideal, but bounded by unsympathetic materials will lack the essential quality."
  • Architecture and Modern Life 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1929-12)
    "My intention this evening, is to bring the art of architecture into relationship with the other arts, and with our every day activities, in order to show that the arts do not necessarily lose any of their aesthetic value ...
  • Commentary 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1931-06)
    "It is not to be thought that because advanced modern work successfully fulfils a functional need that it is lacking in those mystic qualities, those thrilling touches of imaginative virtuosity which seem to be the essence ...
  • Commentary 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1931-09)
    '...Why not try nothing?"
  • The International Tendency in Contemporary Architecture, with particular reference to Swedish work 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1931-12)
    "If we look back a few years in the rapid development of the new movement in European architecture we will find in general that there are two tendencies in the movement. A tendency towards nationalism and a tendency towards ...
  • The Melting Pot 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1932-06)
    "... it is useless to cut and trim from the outside: the change must start further in. We must model outwards, we must conceive the problem clearly, then our house will have shape."
  • Pictures Recall (1928) 
    Martienssen, Rex D (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1932-07)
    It must have bee about five a'clock, and the last rays of the sun slanted through my window and joined the glow of the logs in my fireplace. It was a cold sun, but the room was warm with the woody scent of the fire. I ...

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