DOUBLE-STOREYED FLAT-ROOFED BUILDINGS OF THE RURAL CAPE

Published as a limited edition of 400 numbered copies of which this copy is number 061.

James Walton was the doyen of vernacular architecture in South Africa, and was the honorary life president and founder member of the Vernacular Society of South Africa. Though he was not a trained architect, his publications are all illustrated with his own inimitable pen-sketches.

Walton’s eleven books and over two hundred papers are all pioneering efforts in their own field, which is the study of truly ‘folk’ and not just ‘historical’ architecture and structures.

Source the website of the Vernacular Society of South Afric www.vassa.org.za

This book is richly illustrated with 107 photographs and drawings of buildings, a number of which have been either demolished or recycled.

Foreword by Professor D Holm Professor of Architecture, University of Pretoria.

The book is divided into three parts:
Part 1 deals with rural double-storeyed, flat-roofed houses built on earlier single-storeyed T, H or U plans.
Part 2 describes farm buildings which originated as double-storeyed, flat-roofed buildings with rectangular plans.
Part 3 includes double-storeyed, flat-roofed houses in country towns and villages such as Robertson, Montagu, Riversdale and Colesberg.

Source: Publishers Saayman and Weber publicity leaflet/order form via the www.artefacts.co.za website

This book is limited to 400 copies of which this copy is number 061.