Entry in Book

Entry in the book
Architecture of the Transvaal

Chapter eleven page 253
Author: Brittan, Philip & van Wyk, Gary
Title: Erecting Capital Icons: High-Rise Buildings in the Transvaal

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.

Entry in the book Architecture of the Transvaal


Chapter eleven page 253
Author:	Brittan, Philip & van Wyk, Gary
Title:	Erecting Capital Icons: High-Rise Buildings in the Transvaal
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.