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| Author: | Brittan, Philip & van Wyk, Gary |
| Year: | n.d. |
| Title: | Erecting Capital Icons: High-Rise Buildings in the Transvaal |
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A desire to possess international symbols of modernity overrode aspects of practicality in the pursuit of erecting high-rise buildings in Johannesburg and Pretoria. Phil Brittan and Gary van Wyk explore the ideological values encoded in their architecture as symbolic determinants of form. | |
| BRINK, Christiaan Strauss. pp 256 | |
| BURG DOHERTY BRYANT and PARTNERS. pp 261 | |
| BURG, LODGE and BURG. pp 257 | |
| COLYN and MEIRING. pp 257 | |
| EATON, Norman Musgrave. pp 256 | |
| FASSLER, John. pp 255 | |
| GREIG, Doreen Edith. pp 265 | |
| HANSON, Norman Leonard. pp 253, 255 | |
| HARRIS, FELS, JANKES, NUSSBAUM and PARTNERS. pp 260 | |
| HEINRICH, PETSCHNIGG and Partners. pp 258 | |
| IVAN B SIVE and MAY von LANGENAU. pp 260 | |
| JAHN, Helmut. pp 262 | |
| MIES VAN DER ROHE, Ludwig. pp 257, 258, 259, 261, 264 | |
| NIEMEYER, Oscar. pp 255, 261 | |
| OSCAR HURWITZ, MURRAY and POKROY. pp 260 | |
| PAUW and BOTHA. pp 260 | |
| PEARSE, Geoffrey Eastcott. pp 255 | |
| RINALDI and PARTNERS. pp 256, 272 | |
| RINALDI, MacDONALD and Partners. pp 257 | |
| SKIDMORE OWENS and MERRILL (SOM). pp 257, 258 | |
| STAUCH, Hellmut Wilhem Ernst. pp 255 | |
| STAUCH VORSTER + PARTNERS. pp 261 |