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Author: search.filters.author.Martienssen, Rex DEnd date: 1939

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    Man in Space ( A Lecture delivered at the Abstract Art Congress)
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1937-08) Martienssen, Rex D
    "...I am all for a minimum of information and a maximum of wrangling."
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    The English Spirit
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1939-01) Martienssen, Rex D
    " The architectural monuments of England are to be found in the country. In the vernacular where architectural forms combine with an unaccountable poise and harmony; where brick and tile and thatch and stone are used with judgement and leisurely arrangements we find the spirit which has escaped the architect's most determined efforts to establish an english architecture."
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    Mobile Architecture
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1937-05) Martienssen, Rex D
    "When the designer saw his first flyingboat make a steep climbing turn over Rochester Castle he saw the demonstration of an idea given expression in terms of the rich vocabulary of his own time."
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    The Changing Generator in Greek Sculpture
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1936-09) Martienssen, Rex D
    Art Implies human intervention; the impact of a creating will on inanimate material, but in the functioning of this humanizing agency the outcome is coloured by economy. To evoke a response it is not necessary to re-create the whole idea or form conceived in the mind it is sufficient to evoke a reaction in temrs of a symbol.
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    Conflict in hellas - Materials for an Integration of the Greek Spirit (Paper read to Architectural Student's Society)
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1935-06) Martienssen, Rex D
    When we build, we establish a relationship more or less satisfactory between the volume of the building and the greater volume which encloses it. The enveloping elements of the building-form provide the transition, and it is in this actual transition that the degree of strength and the kind of relationship is established.
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    Palazzo Piccolomini
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1939-01) Martienssen, Rex D
    'Rossellino made a model of the Rucellai. Of the Piccolomini he made a masterpiece."
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    Facade
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1937-11) Martienssen, Rex D
    "... these palaces marked the last stage before impatience with the restrictions of a pure style brought decay, and final collapse into vulgarity."
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    The Contemporary House
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1934-10) Martienssen, Rex D
    "The term architect, then in this context implies very much more than is commonly supposed. Our architect must have a full understanding of the problems involved in the present social and economic structures. His function is to correlate and unify new scientific processes with the scale of human requirements."
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    The Pompeian House
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1933-07) Martienssen, Rex D
    The variation in detail, for example, from a standard type would have no meaning unless we were able to postulate the standard type in the first place. Unless we perceive the broad generalisations inherent of every great productive period we lose the very basis of our researches - our studies become fragmentary, unrelated; our conclusions incomplete and valueless."
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    The hellenistic House, with special reference to examples at Delos
    (Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State Provincial Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1939-11) Martienssen, Rex D
    "The Hellenistic house exemplifies a classic ideal. There is nothing haphazard in its shape.Craftmanship was merely a means to an end, and where we can find faults they can be attributed to a lack of technique or lack of funds, but never to lack of intention. The aesthetic conscience of the individual was as disciplined in his private enterprises as in his collective endeavours, and the house reflects an aspect of life that must be carefully weighed in arriving at an estimate of the Hellenistic achievement."