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Architecture from the archives 1 - shared heritage album
Get PDFThis is one book with two different layouts; one with single pages and the other consists of double pages.This catalogue features archival photographs related to the work of four Dutch immigrant architects: Mello Damstra, Ed Payens, John van de Werke and Jaap van Niftrik. Their various design works in the C20th South African context illustrate hybridity and international exchanges in architecture and serve as evidence of a unique shared architectural heritage.
The publication forms part of the Tectonic ZA
Wilhelmiens research project of the Department
of Architecture, University of Pretoria, supported
financially by the Netherlands Embassy in Pretoria
through its Shared Cultural Heritage Programme. It
is intended as a companion piece to the the book
Common Ground: Dutch-South African Architectural
Exchanges 1902-61 published in 2021 by LM Publishers,
the Netherlands.www.up.ac.za/architectur
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Maverick : an architecture of refuge from the margins, in anticipation of a disastrous event in a hostile South African context
Get PDFMini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2016.Survival is bound to conditions of safety (now) and preservation (future). The places that marginal people inhabit are either permanent familiar places, or temporary unfamiliar places. These places however are also bound to time. When circumstances are unpredictable survival instincts are heightened, and when circumstances are predictable survival instincts are at a neutral level (or in in a state of homeostasis). If a place is undergoing change such as societal and political change, the change in mental state of a person occurs as this affects the survival of that person.
The dissertation explores ideas of identity (valued, strong, useful), perception (how other people see the marginal) and marginalisation of specific groups of people. This will be investigated in terms of the preservation of the marginalised people through programmatic devices and activities (what can the marginal offer). The proposed programme (and supporting programmes) allow for the development of marginalised people in a hostile society in which survival and refuge are the first instincts.
The intent of the architecture seeks to explore the relationship between a marginal person and place on a conceptual and physical level. Moreover the architecture seeks to negotiate the margins that society has placed between those who are approved within society (the norm) and those who are different than the norm. A consciousness of this difference or 'margin area' exists throughout the investigation which allows for an alternative approach to create thought-provoking architecture rather than an aesthetically pleasing architecture.
It is the belief of the author that even though something might be 'broken', it remains more useful and is more valuable than something that was perfect in the first place. The project moves beyond monotony and strives for unity in difference (the marginal unite). Difference as a strength creates an opportunity to emphasise those who are different and finds a way to strengthen the alternative identities in a future spatial condition. The proposed programme facilitates the development of these identities to become stronger in time in order to withstand struggle and unpredictability.ArchitectureMArch (Prof)Unrestricte
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Uncovering the latent potential of (re)appropriated neglected spaces: The transformation of Melgisedek towards addressing issues of homelessness and heritage
Get PDFMini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2021.The intentions of this dissertation are to investigate the phenomenon of neglected buildings and urban spaces occupied and appropriated by the homeless, and to explore the spatial and design potential that this appropriation provides in the transformation and (re)activation of one such site – Melgisedek, Pretoria. The informal appropriation of neglected buildings is often viewed as causing a loss to heritage and identity (Doron 2000, Grunewald and Breed 2013). However, it is argued that this appropriation adds to the palimpsest of evolving identity and heritage embedded in these sites, which could guide the reimagination of these places as socially inclusive spaces (Dreifuss-Serrano 2020: 597, Shaw and Hudson 2009: 9).
Throughout the dissertation, the author explores two themes: the social condition of homelessness and informal appropriation (the primary focus) and the historical condition of the architectural heritage of the site (the secondary focus). The project attempts to overlap these often disconnected themes in an effort to honour and address both. The proposed intervention of transitional housing within a broader conceptual framework aims to uncover the site’s latent potential by navigating the tensions between the social and the historical, permanence and temporality, existing and new, formal and informal, by building on existing activities of appropriation to create new layers of architecture while honouring the existing heritage.
The research on homelessness, case studies of occupied neglected buildings and the analysis of the site, its inhabitants and history guide the development of a multi-layered, incremental site vision with a three-stranded programme. This includes the social welfare programme, the public interface programme and the anchoring link of a communal garden, aimed at incorporating and reinterpreting existing activities of appropriation and addressing the needs of the homeless to reintegrate them into society. The heritage buildings are viewed as permanent anchors and the new additions as a sinew between them, both used to continue the evolving palimpsest of architectural styles and uses on site. A transitional housing development forms the focus for design development, which interweaves permanence, transience, adaptability and flexibility, while reinterpreting the spatial principles of the existing heritage architecture.
Finally, the project is intended to serve as a prototypical exploration of how current complex social issues may be approached in tandem with a respect for existing heritage on other similar sites in South Africa. It also suggests a possible architectural approach to addressing the issue of homelessness, appropriation and [occupied] neglected spaces, which are closely intertwined.ArchitectureMArch (Prof)Unrestricte
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