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Book List This is a list of books about, or by practitioners involved with, the Southern African Built Environment See also the Bibliography in the Lexicon Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ Select the first initial of the Author's surname. Don’t be confused if the list of authors does not start with the letter you chose one of the authors of the book will have that letter starting their surname. Cachet, F Lion 1888 Tiyo Soga : Die Eerste [......]zendeling Amsterdam Höveker & Zoon Cairns, Margaret & Grutter, Wilhelm 1974 Cradle of Commerce - The Story of Block B Cape Town Woolworths Calderwood, DM 1952 Native housing South Africa South African Institute of Race Relations Calderwood, DM 1955 Native housing in South Africa Cape Town Cape Times Calderwood, DM & Institution of Municipal Engineers of Southern Africa 1956? Town planning with particular reference to housing layouts ? ? Calderwood, DM 1960 Waterkloof primary school : a development project Pretoria C.S.I.R. Calderwood, Douglas McGavin 1952 An investigation into the functional and aesthetic aspects of garden architecture Johannesburg Thesis (MArch)--University of the Witwatersrand Calderwood, Douglas McGavin 1953 An investigation into the planning of urban native housing in South Africa Johannesburg Thesis (D.Arch.) University of the Witwatersrand Calderwood, Douglas McGavin 1964 Principles of mass housing Pretoria South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Callinicos, Luli & Lewin, Hugh 2012 Who built Jozi? : discovering memory at Wits Junction Johannesburg Wits University Press Caltex Oil (S.A.) (Pty) Ltd.; J. Walter Thompson Company 1966 Preservation of old buildings and historic sites Cape Town Caltex Oil Camp, Steve 2001 Historic Pietermaritzburg Pietermaritzburg Shuter & Shooter Cape Town Foreshore Joint Technical Committee 1948 The Cape Town Foreshore Plan Cape Town Government Printer of the Union of South Africa Carrim, Nazir 1990 Fietas : a social history of Pageview, 1948-1988 Johannesburg Save Pageview Association Carruthers Vincent 2022 Illustrated History of Hartbeespoort Dam Unknown Unknown Cartwright, Alan Patrick 1977 Diamonds and Clay Cape Town ; New York Purnell Cartwright, AP & Cowan, N 1978 Old Transvaal 1834-1899, The Cape Town Purnell Chamber of Mines of South Africa 1936 Empire Exhibition, South Africa, 1936. The Transvaal Chamber of Mines. Catalogue : A description of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines' pavilion and exhibits Johannesburg Transvaal Chamber of Mines Chilvers, Hedley A 1929 Out of the Crucible. Being the romantic story of the Witwatersrand Goldfields; and of the Great City which arose in their midst (with sixteen drawings by William M. TIMLIN) London Cassell Chipkin, Clive M 1993 Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s Cape Town David Phillip Chipkin, Clive M 2008 Johannesburg Transition - Architecture & Society 1950 - 2000 Johannesburg STE Publishers Christian [Wellman, EJ] 1933 Why No True Christian or Patriot can support Rome [London] Private Christie, Charles 1943 Some memories of Charles Murray and a few of his friends : including the substance of a presidential address to the South African Library Association on the occasion of their Triennial Conference at Johannesburg, January, 1943 Pretoria Wallachs City of Cape Town. Spatial Planning and Urban Design 2009 Cape Town densification strategy : technical report Cape Town Spatial Planning and Urban Design Department, City of Cape Town Clairet, Vanessa; Even, Morgan, Courilleau, Léa (Editorial co-ordination) 2014 Electronic edition Young architects in Africa Paris Architecture-Studio Clark, BH 1983 Sanitary Plumbing Services in South Africa Cape Town : Wetton : Johannesburg Juta & Company Limited Clarke, James (Editor) 1987 Like it was : the Star 100 years in Johannesburg Johannesburg Argus Printing and Pub. Co. Clarke, JFC 2008 A Glimpse into Marabastad Pretoria Leopardstone Private Press Clarke, Nicholas & Kuipers, Marieke 2015 Re-centring Tshwane : Urban heritage strategies for a resilient Capital Pretoria Visual Books Clarke, Nicholas 2021 How Heritage Learns : Dutch Public Housing Heritage Evolution in Ecosystemic Perspective Delft TU Delft BK Clarke, Nicholas J; Fisher, Roger C & Simelane, Siphiwe 2016 First edition NZASM-footsteps along the tracks : the identified extant built residue of the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (1887-1902) Pretoria Visual Books Clarke, Nicholas J; Fisher, Roger C & Kuipers, Marieke C 2021 Common Ground : Dutch-South African Architectural Exchanges 1902-1961 The Netherlands LM Publishers Claude, Dennis John 2015 Faces in the Mirror Durban Phansi Publishing Cleary, Melanie and Du Plessis, Karen 2006 Overberg, The : Inland from the tip of Africa Cape Town Struik Cleghorne, William Shaw Hamilton 1922 Farm Buildings and Building Construction in South Africa : a text-book for farmers, agricultural students, teachers, builders, etc. London Longmans, Green and Co Cloete, Nini Bairnsfather & Fraser, Craig 2016 First edition Remarkable heritage houses of South Africa Rondebosch Quivertree Publications Coates, Peter Ralph 1976 Track and trackless : omnibuses and trams in the Western Cape Cape Town Struik Cobern, Joy 2003 Fish Hoek : Looking Back Fish Hoek Fish Hoek Printing & Publishing Coetzee, Abel 1960 Die Afrikaanse Volkskultuur Cape Town Balkema Coetzee, CG 2000 Military villages on the Eastern Frontier - proposed and founded - 1821-1850 Grahamstown Private Coetzee, CG, Westby-Nunn, Tony (Revised and edited) 2010 The Cape journal : military villages in the Eastern Cape : the unfortified military villages of Sir Harry Smith, 1848-1850 Cape Town Westby Nunn publishers Coetzee, Colin 1995 Forts of the Eastern Cape : Securing a frontier 1799-1878 Grahamstown Colin G Coetzee Coetzee, DJ 1940 Spoorwegontwikkeling in die Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek (1872-1899) : (met spesiale verwysing na die botsing tussen die onafhanklikheidstrewe van die Boere en die Britse Imperiale belange) Kaapstad Nasionale Pers Coetzee, H B 2013 Middelburg: Hede en Verlede / Present and Past Port Elizabeth H B Coetzee Coetzee, Nicolaas Abraham 1997 Die geskiedenis van Rustenburg ongeveer van 1840 tot 1940 Pretoria NA Coetzee Coetzee, NJ 1992 Pierneef, Land and Landscape: The Johannesburg Station Panels in Context Johannesburg CBM Publishing Coetzee, NJ 2010 First edition Pierneef 1886-1957 : Die Stasiepanele / The Station Panels Stellenbosch Rupert-Kunsstigting Coetzer, Nicholas 2016 Building Apartheid : On Architecture and Order in Imperial Cape Town London Routledge Cohen, Morris J 1938 Anton van Wouw : Sculptor of South African Life Johannesburg Radford Adlington Cohen, Ronald & van Graan, Andre 2015 Cape Town : a study in watercolours Cape Town Fernwood Press Cole Bowen, Robert E 1957 Fifteen essays in half-tone Pretoria Van Schaik Cole Bowen, Robert E 1974 World to World on Rhodesia's Magic Carpet Bulawayo Books of Rhodesia Cole, DI 2002 The building stones of Cape Town : a geological walking tour Cape Town Council for Geoscience Colvin, ID 1909 Romance of Empire, South Africa London TC & EL Jack Comrie, H & Young, G (Eds) 2000 Greyton urban design study - with 8 watercolours by T Evans Pretoria Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria Connell, PH; Irvine-Smith, C; Jonas, K; Kantorowich, R & Wepener, FJ 1939 Native housing Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand, unpublished collective BArch thesis Conservation Committee of the Durban City Council 1992 Rewarding conservation Durban Conservation Awards Committee and Communications & Public Relations Department Cook, Douglas 1962 The Paynes of 'Overdale' Privately printed Cook, Mary Alexander 1973 Die Kaapse kombuis : 'n beskrywing van sy ligging, uitleg en toebehore Stellenbosch Stellenbosch Museum Cook, Mary Alexander 1973 The Cape kitchen : a description of its position, lay-out, fittings and utensils Stellenbosch Stellenbosch Museum Cooke, Julian 2021 For a home, people die : A community struggle makes a post-apartheid model Cape Town Self-published Cooke, Julian 2023 Twenty Venetian Campi - A short guide to the design of Venetian campi Cape Town Privately published Cooke, Julian 2024 PEOPLE IN THE STREETS and other poems Cape Town Privately published Cooper, A A 1986 The Freemasons of South Africa Cape Town Human & Rousseau Cooper, AA & Vieler, DEG 1995 A Century of Brotherhood : a history of English Freemasonry in the Transvaal from 1895-1995 Unknown Unknown Courtney-Clarke, Margaret (photographer) & Goldblatt, David (Foreword) 1986 Ndebele Cape Town Struikhof Cowin, Kay 1954 Bushveld, Bananas and Bounty London Michael Joseph Coyne, Patrick 2010 A guide to South Africa's mountain passes and poorts Westville Osborne Porter Literary Services CPIA Committee 1983 The Buildings of Cape Town 1983 : Phase Two. Volume Three : Catalogue and Classification Cape Town Cape Provincial Institute of Architects Craig, JF (ed.) 194? The Tavern of the seas / Die Herberg van die see Cape Town United Tobacco Company Crook, Lionel 2013 Island at War : Robben Island, 1939-45 Simon's Town Naval Heritage Trust Cross, James JB 1977 Graaff Reinet : a portfolio of four art prints = 'n portefeulje van vier kunsafdrukke South Africa S.l. : s.n. Crump, Alan & Van Niekerk, Raymund 1988 Public sculptures & reliefs Cape Town Cape Town Clifton Publications Cumming-George, L 1933 Architecture in South Africa - Volume One Cape Town The Speciality Press of S.A. Ltd. Cumming-George, L 1934 Architecture in South Africa - Volume Two Cape Town The Speciality Press of S.A. Ltd. Currey, RF 1970 Rhodes University 1904-1970 : a chronicle Grahamstown Grahamstown Bakker, Karel A; Clarke, Nicholas J & Fisher, Roger C 2014 Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens : A shared Dutch built heritage in South Africa Pretoria Visual Books de Mervelec, Patrick & Chipkin, Clive M 2013 Johannesburg : architecture and heritage South Africa In Camera Art Publications De Villiers, Div & Costello, John 2006 Mkambati and the Wild Coast : South Africa and Pondoland's unique heritage South Africa Wilderness Safaris Fisher, Roger & Clarke, Nicholas 2014 Architectural Guide : South Africa Berlin DOM Publishers Fleischer, Dolores & Caccia, Angela 1983 Merchant Pioneers: The House of Mosenthal Johannesburg Jonathan Ball Fransen, Hans & Cook, Mary Alexander 1965 The old houses of the Cape : a survey of the existing buildings in the traditional style of architecture of the Dutch-settled regions of the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town AA Balkema Fransen, Hans & Cook, Mary Alexander 1981 The Old Buildings of the Cape Cape Town Balkema Goldblatt, David; Courtney-Clarke, Margaret & Kench, John 1981 Cape Dutch Homesteads Cape Town C Struik Publishers Greshoff, Martin (Compiler and Editor) & Clouts, Marge (Sub-Editor) 2021 District Six : Memories, Thoughts and Images Cape Town The Attic Press Jack, Alex D; Cobban, D G (text) & Williams, S H (ed.) 1981 Salisbury’s changing skyline, 1890 - 1980 Bulawayo Books of Zimbabwe Methven, Cathcart W & Cape of Good Hope. Ministerial Department of Public Works 1901 Report on the existing and proposed harbour improvements, Port Alfred Cape Town W.A. Richards & Sons Methven, Cathcart W & Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) 1902 Mossel Bay Harbour Works Cape Town Cape Times Ltd. Methven, Cathcart W & Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Department of Public Works 1902 St. John's harbour survey Cape Town Cape Times Ltd. Methven, Cathcart William & Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) 1902 Kalk Bay : proposed fishery harbour Cape Town Cape Times Methven, Cathcart William; Crofts, Charles James & Tudsbery, JHT 1914 Durban harbour, South Africa London The Institution Murray, Noëleen & Cane, Jonathan (Eds) 2023 Creative Cities in Africa Cape Town HSRC Press O'Brien, Rory & Curtis, Craig (samestellers) 1979 Die Donkinerfenis-wandelpad : Port Elizabeth stapgids Port Elizabeth Historiese Vereniging Pearse, G E & Carnegie Corporation of New York. Visitors' Grants Committee 1934 Architectural education, a survey of the problem in South Africa, the United States of America, Canada and Europe; report of a visit to the United States of America, Canada and Europe under the auspices of the Visitors' grants committee of the Carnegie corporation of New York Pretoria Carnegie Corporation Visitors' grants committee Stone, Ida Mae & Clayton, Harry 1976 Sketches : published on the occasion of Johannesburg's ninetieth birthday Johannesburg Published for the Africana Museum by Ad. Donker Strauss, Pamela & Curtis, John 1994 Africa style in South Africa : pondokkies, khayas, and castles Johannesburg J. Ball Publishers Van Riet Lowe, Clarence & Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments, Relics and Antiques 1941 The monuments of South Africa : including an account of the work of the Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments, Relics and Antiques during the period 23rd April, 1935, to 22nd April, 1940 Pretoria Government Printer Albert, Don; O'Toole, Sean W; Gunning, Siobhan; Coetzer, Nic & Don Albert & Partners 2010 Sound space design : the architecture of Don Albert & Partners Cape Town Pythagoras Thomas, Beverley; van Hemert, Marena & Cochrane, Colin 1997 The Drostdy Museum : Guide Book Swellendam Drostdy Museum Van Riet Lowe, Clarence; Malan, BD & Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments, Relics and Antiques 1949 The monuments of South Africa : Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition Pretoria Government Printer Benjamin, Arnold; Aron, Helen; Zar, Shirley & Chipkin, Clive M 1972 Parktown, 1892-1972 : a social and pictorial history Johannesburg Studio Thirty-Five