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| Author: | Walton, James |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Title: | Old Cape Farmsteads |
| Place: | Cape Town |
| Publisher: | Human & Rosseau |
In the first four chapters of this book, James Walton traces the possible origins of Cape rural architecture and outlines its development during the first two hundred years of European settlement. In subsequent sections he deals with aspects of Cape rural vernacular architecture which have previously received scant recognition, such as the longhouses, corbelled buildings and other buildings of the Karoo sheep farmer, and wine cellars. In so doing, he describes all types of building which make up the Cape farmstead, ranging from the ornate manor houses to wolwehokke and soap houses. In collecting material for the book, the author travelled thousands of kilometres and most of the two hundred and eighty illustrations are the result of those travels, although many historic photographs by Arthur Elliott and drawings by Alys Fane Trotter, Johann Christian Friderici, Johannes Mulder and E. V. Stade are also reproduced. | |
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