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    Ideals in Architecture
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1928-09) Martienssen, Rex D
    '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."
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    The Golden Road. Impressions of an Architectural Pilgrimage to the Cape.
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1928-06) Martienssen, Rex D
    "...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. In January 1928 Professor Pearse took a party of architectural students to the Cape. His intention was to make complete surveys of as many of the old buildings as possible, consistent with careful study, and a true appreciation of their beauty..."
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    Architecture and Modern Life
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1929-12) Martienssen, Rex D
    "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 by fulfilling a functional need."
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    Reactions and Reflections
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1927-12) Martienssen, Rex D
    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.
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    Modern Architecture, with particular reference to shop design
    (The Association of Transvaal Architects, the Natal Institute of Architects and the South African Institute of Quantity Surveyors, 1927-09) Martienssen, Rex D
    "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 of the architect in his practice.
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    What is Architecture?
    (Association of Transvaal Architects, the Natal Institute of Architects and the South African Institute of Quantity Surveyors, 1925-06) Martienssen, Rex D
    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 translated into corresponding intervals of architectural void and solid, height and width.