Whelan, Deborah (2013) Designing from scratch: what to do in a new paradigm -approaches made by EB White in the early years of electrification in Pietermaritzburg. In: KwaZulu-Natal Institute for Architecture New Paradigms Conference, 10 October 2013, Durban.
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| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop contribution (Presentation) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
Abstract
Electricity arrived in Pietermaritzburg in the late 1890s, but it was only post World War I that any formal structures apart from cast iron and wood and iron substations were constructed. Many of these early buildings, certainly between 1919 and 1931, were designed and signed off by one EB White, an electrical technician who used pattern book language in the construction of these new buildings.
This paper discusses the dearth of precedent that was encountered by the early designers of substation buildings, entrenching a reliance on the extant built environment and prevailing architectural traditions
| Keywords: | electricity provision, substations, infrastructural history |
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| Subjects: | V Historical and Philosophical studies > V253 Southern African History K Architecture, Building and Planning > K990 Architecture, Building and Planning not elsewhere classified L Social studies > L713 Human and Social Geography of Africa |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > School of Architecture & Design > School of Architecture & Design (Architecture) |
| ID Code: | 29040 |
| Deposited On: | 29 Nov 2017 16:52 |
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