Rural Shelter in Southern Africa: A Survey of the Architecture, House Forms, and Constructional Methods of the Black Rural Peoples of Southern AfricaShows a flowchart of the historical development of the rural house form (p 20) and includes photographs and illustration on building methods. |
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apex areas beehive dome beehive hut bilobial dwelling Bophuthatswana Buffelshoek 471 IQ building built Burchell Cape Town cattle enclosure central crown central post chapter Ciskei cone on cube cone on cylinder conical roof corrugated iron Crossroads daga packing daga plastering Difaqane doorway drum earth bricks earth packing eaves examples recorded Figure floor plan functions gabled Gazankulu grass ropes ground highveld highveld house Highveld region homestead Hottentots household internal KaNgwane kerb kraal Kromdraai KwaZulu Lebowa load-bearing Malukazi monolithic Ndebele Northern Cape packed earth perimeter verandah Peter Kolbe Qwa Qwa reed Ridged and hipped ROOF BEAMS roof frame roof structure rural architecture rural society rural vernacular settlement Silwerkrantz Sotho South Africa Southern Africa space squatter stage stone sun-dried Thaba Nchu thatch thatch cover Thonga TIMBER COLUMNS timber frame timber posts traditional Transkei Transvaal truss Tswana usually Venda verandah verandah house vernacular architecture Walton whilst Winterveld Xhosa Zulu