Doctoral Degrees (Architecture)
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City morphology and effective control mechanisms: towards land use optimization and sustainable development: a case study of Lagos mega city.
(2018)Rapid urban growth and resultant modifications to the environment have significantly changed urban morphologies. Given the rapid growth of metropolitan Lagos and its constrained access to land, spontaneous, muddled patterns ... -
A new vernacular architectural language informed by the use of space in informal settlements: selected case studies in the Ethekwini Municipality, South Africa.
(2018)Informal settlements are home to over 60% of urban poor in developing nations. They present a unique character in urban areas, making them easily identifiable. Nevertheless, they are often conceptualised in negative terms ... -
Afrocentric placemaking and architecture in contemporary urban built form: a case of Bulawayo’s civic precinct, Zimbabwe
(2019)Inspired by Afrocentrism ideologists such as Molefi Kete Asante (2007), the researcher advocates for non-dominance of one community by any other, as this has created problems across sub-Saharan Africa. The social ... -
The transformation of architectural pedagogy towards a new model for architectural education at universities of technology in South Africa.
(2016)Architectural education and practice in democratic South Africa have been challenged to respond to broad national imperatives which have completely transformed the educational and professional legislative frameworks that ... -
Technical know-how in the indigenous knowledge system underlying Batammariba traditional architecture in Togo and Benin.
(2013)The desire to revitalise indigenous architecture and the built environment through socio-cultural, political and bio-physical relevance has created a strong need for the understanding of cultures and traditional built ... -
A study in the sociology of building with special reference to the architect.
(1960)It is apparent from this research that we need to develop a sociology of building in the same way that we are assembling a sociology of medicine, education, religion and of knowledge itself and that in the task of creating ... -
The sacredness of space and its values in the Maronite church in Lebanon : a fusion between liturgy and place.
(2004)There exists only one manuscript about ecclesiastical Maronite ecclesiastical architecture (written in the 17th century by the patriarch Stephen el Dweihi) and there is no revised or subsequent work of reference, which ... -
Regularizing informal settlements for sustainable housing development for the urban poor : the case of Nairobi, Kenya.
(2011)In Kenya, as in most developing countries, the provision of adequate housing for the urban poor has been an elusive exercise for the past five decades. Since the early 1960s when serious concerns were raised over housing ... -
Preconditions for housing consolidation : towards a suitable package of support for incremental housing in South Africa : a case study of eThekweni municipality.
(2008)This thesis set out to examine the application of the supporter paradigm in the incremental housing process in South Africa, and the way support for housing consolidation has been orchestrated in practice. It aimed to ... -
A contemporary assessment of the genesis of the modern aesthetic : the impact of modern art on modern architecture.
(1999)This dissertation assesses the impact of modem art on the so-called heroic period of modem architecture, dated for the purposes ofthis thesis from 1917 to 1933. The study is premised on two principal arguments: firstly, ... -
Changing roles of women in housing processes and construction : the case of Lobatse Township, Botswana.
(2005)This thesis explores variations and shifts in gender roles in housing delivery and the construction. Although presently excluded from construction activities, women have in the past constituted substantial proportions of ...
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