Vernacular Architecture Society

of South Africa

Publications

VASSA JOURNALS (Early journals provided as pdfs)

No. 1 July 1999 (3.14MB)
A tribute to James Walton
Reminiscences of the early days in the study of South African vernacular architecture: Philippina Oberholster
Yorkshireman het Suid-Afrikaners geleer hoe om te bewaar: Martiens van Bart
Working with James Walton: Margaret Cairns
A belated friendship: André Pretorius
Connie Walton: Mary Floyd
Volksboukunde in konteks: Mathys Hattingh
The James Walton Collection: Lynne Fourie
The conservation and interpretation of vernacular architecture: Graeme Binckes

No. 2 December 1999 (1.22MB)
Simonsvlei, the story of a farm and its people, 1691-1999: Margaret Cairns
Three frozen moments in the past: An analysis of Simonsvlei household inventories: Antonia Malan
No. 3 July 2000:
Denis Verschoyle and policy planning in the Upper Table Valley: Melanie Attwell
Denis Verschoyle (1910-1997): Mieke Verschoyle
Upper Table Valley: a survey, 1979: Denis Verschoyle [reprint]

No. 3 July 2000 (3.MB)

No. 4 December 2000 (812 KB)
Lokenburg: Its early history, pioneer owners and buildings: André Pretorius
Some thoughts concerning the positioning of early Cape homesteads: Keith Loynes
Surgery to buildings: Jonathan Driver-Jowitt
The leper colony at Hemen-en-Aarde near Hermanus: Postscript to the Society’s visit in 1998: John Annandale

No. 5 June 2001 (4.3 MB)
The meaning of the 18th century Cape farmstead: Yvonne Brink
The South African Orphan House: Lost but not forgotten: David van den Heever
George Thompson’s house and business premises in Long Street, Cape Town: Antonia Malan

No. 6 December 2001 (9.65 MB)
Stormsvlei: A unique settlement frozen in time: André Pretorius

No. 7 June 2002 (502 KB)
How the garden grew: A brief spatial history of the Cape Town Gardens:
Stewart Harris

No. 8 December 2002 (12.4 MB)
Buffelskraal, on the Hex River: André Pretorius

No. 9 June 2003
Dirk Visser Memorial Issue: Stewart Harris
The modern Cape house: Mike Munnik & Dirk Visser [reprint]
Partner and friend: Mike Munnik
Brother: Mike Visser
Architect: Jane Visser
The dovecote and dower house at Alphen: Nicky Cloete-Hopkins
Heritage activist: Steve Townsend
Vernacking with Dirk: Joanna Marx
I remember Dirk … : Len Raymond
Reading the structure of old Cape buildings: Dirk Visser
[transcript from recording made at VASSA Workshop 1999]

No. 10 December 2003
Kalbaskraal, Malmesbury: André van Graan
Anatomy of the Cape townhouse: Dirk Visser [reprint]
Crossing the Doorn (Doring) River: Nigel Amschwand

No. 11 June 2004
Plattekloof, Riversdale: An abandoned pass, an 18th century farm with historic homestead, and a painting of a mysterious lady: André Pretorius
Reflections on half a century of vernacular architecture studies at the Cape: Antonia Malan
La Cotte, Franschhoek: The homestead and its setting: André van Graan & Antonia Malan

No. 12 December 2004.
'A tribute to Revel Fox (1924-2004)': Nicolas Baumann.
'Doornboom ('Auld House') Heidelberg CP': Andre Pretorius.
'Inherited characteristics of the Cape Vernacular': Hugh Floyd (reprint of 1983
article)

No. 13 June 2005
Wine making at the Cape : The architecture of wine: André van Graan
A short history of Muratie: Helena Scheffler
Morgenhof: From langhuis to manoir : Antonia Malan

No. 14 December 2005
The vernacular architecture of Swellendam and its surroundings : Eureka Barnard
A tribute to our Octogenarian Vernackers: Helen Binckes, Shirley Chapman, Marion Ellis, Mary Floyd & Joy Saxon
Coenradenberg: Pat Kramer

No. 15 June 2006

Driefontein Farmhouse, Berg River Valley : an example of a late 18 th century longhouse: Mary Patrick & Harriet Clift
Donkerhoek homestead: Farm 956, Stellenbosch: Emmylou Rabe
An investigation of a colonial era farm graveyard in the Northern Cape : Nigel Amschwand

No. 16 December 2006

André Pretorius: great loss to VASSA / Gevoelige verlies vir Kaapse bewaringwêreld: Hans Fransen
André Pretorius: Skrywer, fotograaf, bewaringsman: Martiens van Bart
The Three Musketeers: Philippina Oberholster
Preface to André Pretorius’s self-published book, Our Threatened Heritage (1997): André Pretorius
Tierhoek, Calvinia: André Pretorius
Giving dignity back to Loedolff House, Malmesbury: David Glennie
Schoongezicht, Ida’s Valley and Weltevreden, Stellenbosch: the survival of Cape homesteads amid urban sprawl: Antonia Malan

No. 17 June 2007

Corbelled buildings - an overview: Pat Kramer
VASSA excursion to Loxton, September 2006
Corbelled buildings in Europe
Corbelled buildings in South Africa: James Walton
Nieuweveld farms that tell a story: Judy Maguire
Preliminary list of sites
Directions for further for research
References, Resources and Maps

No. 18 December 2007

Soutpan - a farm on the edge: Nigel Amschwand
The form and layout of early Cape Town households, 1660-1740: Antonia Malan

SPECIAL ISSUES

Historical Survey Group report on The farm Matjesfontein in the Bokkeveld: General Editor Nigel Amschwand

Exhibition Souvenir : ‘Folk Architecture at the Cape ', exhibition held at UCT's Irma Stern Museum , October 2004. [Also in Afrikaans.]

Proceedings of a Workshop on vernacular architecture at the Cape , held in Durbanville in 2004: edited by Antonia Malan

Who's Where in Cape Architecture : A Directory of People and Places - compiled by Stewart Harris , 2006, from Hans Fransen's ‘The Old Buildings of the Cape ' with additional material from De Villiers & Pama's genealogies, ‘The Dictionary of South African Biography' and other selected sources.

A tribute to Gawie Fagan on his 80 th birthday: edited by Helena Fagan , 2006

Table Valley Market Gardens (1800, 1805, 1807): Stewart Harris, 2007. In about 1804 an unknown artist made a drawing of the Table Valley. It shows icons of the market garden houses on the slopes that embrace the town. Each has the owner's name written next to it. Three of the four surviving censuses of Cape Town were taken between 1800 and 1807 and include details of agricultural activity for these properties. Where known, transfer deed numbers from the Deeds Office are added. The centre spread is a copy of Denis Verschoyle's map which conveniently names the gardens and outlines the shapes they had grown into by 1820.

GUIDES

Guide to Measuring / Meetgids: Colette van Niftrik R10

MISCELLANEOUS

Coenradenburg: A survey of an old Cape farm: Graeme Binckes & VASSA Team

A tribute to the Donkey: James Walton

HARG (UCT) PUBLICATIONS: RESOURCE BOOKS

Architectural history in Cape Town and its hinterland: an annotated bibliography : Stewart Harris [2000]

Archives & Archaeology , a guide to source material for researching colonial Cape Town households : Antonia Malan & Stewart Harris [1999 revised 2005]

Glossary of objects and words used in 18 th and early 19 th century Cape inventories : Antonia Malan [1999]