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Heart of culture
If the urban landscape is the body politic made inertly manifest, then cultural and civil space acts as the heart. Cultural space allows for the societal corpus to gaze into itself. Cultural space however is commonly made to act as gilded cages -held aloft within ivory towers- with a negation of its...
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| author | Steyn, Selwyn |
| author2 | Louw, Michael |
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| description | If the urban landscape is the body politic made inertly manifest, then cultural and civil space acts as the heart. Cultural space allows for the societal corpus to gaze into itself. Cultural space however is commonly made to act as gilded cages -held aloft within ivory towers- with a negation of its civic value. A cultural heart, an institutional anchor, tying the past and future is most prescient within the context of Cape Town's Foreshore, simultaneously addressing the complex urban needs of an unstitched Modernist landscape and anticipating rapid developmental flux that will see the city change explosively. This dissertation scheme aims to reinterpret the art museum typology which typically generates an insular and monastic aesthetic experience in which one is removed fully from the world. Here rather, the program questions how public functions and museum functions can be interspersed and dynamically overlayed so that maximal conversation and cross pollination may occur with public life influencing the experience of art. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/38178 Heart of culture Steyn, Selwyn Louw, Michael Architecture If the urban landscape is the body politic made inertly manifest, then cultural and civil space acts as the heart. Cultural space allows for the societal corpus to gaze into itself. Cultural space however is commonly made to act as gilded cages -held aloft within ivory towers- with a negation of its civic value. A cultural heart, an institutional anchor, tying the past and future is most prescient within the context of Cape Town's Foreshore, simultaneously addressing the complex urban needs of an unstitched Modernist landscape and anticipating rapid developmental flux that will see the city change explosively. This dissertation scheme aims to reinterpret the art museum typology which typically generates an insular and monastic aesthetic experience in which one is removed fully from the world. Here rather, the program questions how public functions and museum functions can be interspersed and dynamically overlayed so that maximal conversation and cross pollination may occur with public life influencing the experience of art. 2023-07-29T11:02:19Z 2023-07-29T11:02:19Z 2023 2023-07-29T11:01:15Z Master Thesis Masters Master of Architecture (Professional) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38178 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment |
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| title | Heart of culture |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Heart of culture |
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