Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.
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The Styled Chic and Shack Architecture Drawings of Jo Noero
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- 14 July 2016
- Edwin Seda
- Opinion , African Greats , Modern Africana , Selected Works , Articles Books & Magazines , Architects , Architecture ,
Joe Noero is no stranger to critical and conscious South African Architecture.
A signature definition of his achievements is perhaps that he an International Fellow of The Royal Institute of British Architects and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects but his accomplishments perhaps lies in building small worlds of order and creating socially purposeful architecture.
The dialect that architecture has been able to adopt in the wake of free South Africa post 1994 is something that Noero aspires to fully comprehend. The very nature that architecture should be able to converse with its users and at the same stroke of a pen still merge the norms of the people and advance their education is perhaps the one aspect that he seeks to stand in between and explore within the spaces he creates.
In this series of hand drawings, Noero explores styled architecture and a deeper sense of these social aspects vis a vis the eclectic merger of shack and chic elements of emerging post-apartheid architecture in south Africa.
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Did you notice the impossible Penrose steps in Inception? Or the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright and Phaeno Science Center by Zaha Hadid in The International? Cinemas have always found a way to reward groundbreaking architectural thoughts with engrossing scenes and so...
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