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This is a list of books about, or by practitioners involved with,
the Southern African Built Environment

See also the Bibliography in the Lexicon



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Bull, Marjorie & Denfield, Joseph
1970
Secure the shadow; the story of Cape photography from its beginnings to the end of 1870
Cape Town
T McNally

Charles, I & Davis, II
0
10.5 From Africa to the Diaspora : Towards a Theory of (Pan-)African Architecture



Da Gama Publications, ltd., Johannesburg
1960
Our first half-century, 1910-1960; golden jubilee of the Union of South Africa
Johannesburg
Da Gama Publications

Dane, Philippa & Wallace, Sydney-Anne
1981
The Great houses of Constantia
Cape Town
Don Nelson

Darwin, Michael Rhodes
2006
Exploring Lodge De Goede Hoop
Cape Town
Grand Lodge of South Africa, Provincial Grand Lodge – Southern Division

Davids, Achmat
1980
The Mosques of Bo-Kaap - A social history of Islam at the Cape
Athlone, Cape
The South African Institute of Arabic and Islamic Research

Davids, Achmat
1985
The History of the Tana Baru
Cape Town
Committee for the Preservation of the Tana Baru

Davies, Philip
1985
Splendours of the Raj : British architecture in India, 1660-1947
London
J Murray

Davies-Webb, Paddy
2009
Memories of the Lowveld's Elands Valley 1854-1983 : recollections of a lifetime in the Valley and its surrounds
Unknown
Paddy Davies-Webb

de Beer, Diane
2010
Decade of Design - from the offices of mathews + associates architects cc
Pretoria
Visual Books

De Beer, Mona
1987
Lion Mountain, The : and the story of Bantry Bay, Clifton and Camps Bay on the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula
Cape Town
AA Balkema

De Boer, J and Temmers, EM
1987
The Unitas Fratrum : two hundred and fifty years of missionary and pastoral service in southern Africa (western region)
Cape Town
Moravian Church in SAWCP

De Bosdari, C
1953
1st edition
Cape Dutch Houses and Farms, their architecture and history
Cape Town / Amsterdam
AA Balkema

De Bosdari, C
1954
Anton Anreith : Africa's first sculptor
Cape Town
AA Balkema

De Bosdari, C
1964
2nd edition
Cape Dutch Houses and Farms
Cape Town
Balkema

De Bosdari, C
1971
3rd edition
Cape Dutch Houses and Farms
Cape Town
Balkema

De Jong, RC; Van der Waal, GM & Heydenrych, DH
1988
NZASM 100 : 1887-1899, the buildings, steam engines and structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company
Pretoria
C. Van Rensburg Publications on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council

De Klerk, AJB
1954
Leeuwenhof. Die kronieke van 'n Kaapse herehuis
Cape Town
AA Balkema

De Kock, Victor
1952
Ons Drie Eeue : Our Three Centuries
Kaapstad
Sentrale Komitee van die Van Riebeeck-fees

De Kock, Victor
1960
Ons Erfenis - Our Heritage
Cape Town
Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk

De Kock, WJ
1949
First edition
Krugerhuis - Pretoria
Pretoria
Die Raad van Kuratore

De Kock, WJ
1976
Suid-Afrikaanse biografiese woordeboek : Deel 1
Kaapstad
RGN/Tafelberg

De Kock,WJ
1963
Kruger House : Pretoria, The
Pretoria
Board of Trustees, Transvaal Museum

de Mervelec, Patrick & Chipkin, Clive M
2013
Johannesburg : architecture and heritage
South Africa
In Camera Art Publications

De Puyfontaine, Huguette Roy
1972
Louis Michel Thibault 1750-1815 : his official life at the Cape of Good Hope
Cape Town
Tafelberg

De Saxe, Morris & Goodman, IM
1929
The South African Jewish Year Book : An Official Record of Matters Jewish in the Southern Portion of the Continent of Africa
Johannesburg
The South African Jewish Historical Society

De Villiers, Braam Michiel
2002
Bioclimatic design for energy conscious housing on the South African highveld and the northern steppe
Arizona
Unpublished MArch Thesis : University of Arizona

De Villiers, Div & Costello, John
2006
Mkambati and the Wild Coast : South Africa and Pondoland's unique heritage
South Africa
Wilderness Safaris

De Villiers, Simon A
1971
Robben Island : out of reach, out of mind : a history of Robben Island
Cape Town
Struik

De Villiers, Susan
1985
A tale of three cities
Cape Town
Murray & Roberts

De Waal, Lydia M
1978
Europees Historiese vormaalelemente in die Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerkargitektuur van die Groot Karoo
Bloemfontein
UOVS, MA Fakulteit van lettere en Wysbegeerte, Dept Kuns en Beeld. Kunste

De Wet, May (Compiler)
2007
Aliwal-Noord : Op die spore van gister / Aliwal North : Discover Aliwal's yesterdays
Aliwal North
Aliwal Museum

Deacon, Harriet Ed
1996
The island : A History of Robben Island, 1488-1990
Cape Town
Mayibuye Books David Philips Publishers

Deckler, Thorsten; Graupner, Anne & Rasmuss, Henning
2006
Contemporary South African architecture in a landscape of transition
Cape Town
Double Storey Books

Delatolla, Leslie (Compiler)
1985
The Pretoria Club, 1885-1985
Pretoria
Pretoria Club

Delius, Peter; Maggs, Tim & Schoeman, Alex
2014
Forgotten World : the stone-walled settlements of the Mpumalanga escarpment
Johannesburg
Wits University Press

Delmar, Peter
2010
The N4 book : the road to Maputo
Johannesburg
Parkview Press

Demissie, Fassil & Mary and Leigh Block Gallery
1994?
Modern architecture and the design of 'native housing' in South Africa 1925-1955
S.l.
s.n.

Denfield, Joseph
1965
Pioneer Port : the illustrated history of East London
Cape Town
Howard Timmins

Dennis Edwards & Co
1899
Picturesque South Africa : An Album of Two Hundred Choice Photographic Engravings
Cape Town
Dennis Edwards & Co

Department of Nature and Environmental conservation of the Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope
1984
First edition
Post Office Tree Provincial Museum Complex Mossel Bay
Cape Town
Department of Nature and Environmental conservation of the Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope

Dersley, GH
1893
Views of King William's Town
King William's Town
GH Dersley

Dersley, GH
1894
A Souvenir of East London
King William's Town
Geo. H. Dersley Photographer & Publisher

Derwent, Sue
1999
Guide to cultural tourism in South Africa
Cape Town
Struik

Dewar, Andrew Redcote
1898
From matter to man : a new theory of the universe
London
Chapman & Hall

Die Dorpsraad van Stellenbosch
1929
Stellenbosch 1679-1929
Stellenbosch
Hortors

Diederichs, N; et al
1942
Die Afrikaner-personeregister 1942
Johannesburg


Digby, Anne; Phillips, Howard; Deacon, Harriet & Thomson, Kirsten
2008
At the Heart of Healing: Groote Schuur Hospital, 1938 - 2008
Auckland Park
Jacana

Dixon, Leng
1952
Malay and Cape sketches
Cape Town
Maskew Miller

Dixon, Roger & Muthesius, Stefan
1978
Victorian Architecture
London
Thames & Hudson

Dolan, David & Lewis, Christine
2004
The Fairbridge Chapel : Sir Herbert Baker's Labour of Love
Perth
API Network

Dommisse, Boet & Westby-Nunn, Tony
2002
Simon's Town : an illustrated historical perspective
Simon's Town
Westby-Nunn Publishers

Dommisse, Boet
2005
Admiralty House Simon's Town
Simon's Town
J Dommisse

Dommisse, Boet
2008
The Palace, Simon's Town
Simon's Town
J Dommisse

Donald, J M; Kirby, Percival Robson & et al
1961
Peddie - settlers' outpost
Grahamstown
Grocott and Sherry

Doran, Ian (Editor)
1978
Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Thomson Publication

Dreyer, Andries
1907
Historisch album van de Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk in Zuid- Afrika. No. 1, De ring van Kaapstad
Kaapstad
Cape Times

Drostdy Museum
s. a.[1974]
De Oude Drostdy Tulbagh
Tulbagh
Drostdy Museum

du Plessis Associates (Compilers)
1978
Vennootskap Jan van Wijk Ingelyf
Johannesburg
Vennootskap Jan van Wijk

Du Plessis, C & Du Plessis, TAP
2013
Journal of Construction



Du Plessis, Izak David
1944
The Cape Malays
Cape Town
Maskew Miller

Du Plessis, Izak David & Lückhoff, Carl August
1953
The Malay Quarter and its people
Cape Town
AA Balkema

Du Plessis, Niel M
1998
The Tygerberg: The story of the Tygerberg Hills and the towns of Parow, Bellville, and Durbanville
Cape Town
Tafelberg Publishers

du Preez, Hannetjie; van Oers, Ron; Roos, Job & Verhoef, Leo (eds)
2009
The Challenge of Genadendal
Amsterdam, Netherlands
IOS Press

Du Preez, Jacobus Lodewikus
2012
The Historical development of farmstead architecture in the Brandwater Basin of the Eastern Free State up to Union
Bloemfontein
MArch Dissertation, University of the Free State

Du Toit, Hendrik Daniël Alphonso (red.)
1966
Sinvolle kerkbou : rapport van die Sinodale Kerkboukommissie, sinodes van Suid- en Noord-Transvaal, Ned. Geref. Kerk van Suid-Afrika
Pretoria
NG Kerk-Boekhandel

Duckworth, JG
1989
The St Mary's story : A history of St Mary's catholic parish Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg
St. Mary's Press

Dugmore, CF
2008
The making of Krugersdorp, 1887-1923
Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand: Unpublished thesis

Duncan, Paul & Proust, Alain
2016
Hidden Johannesburg
Cape Town
Penguin Random House South Africa

Duncan, Paul & Proust, Alain
2013
Hidden Cape Town
Cape Town
Random House Struik

Dunston, Lola & Dunston, Tom
1975
Young Pretoria 1889-1913
Pretoria
Dunston

Durban Art Deco Society
2021
Durban Art Deco : Heritage of a Sub-tropical African City
Durban
Durban Art Deco Society

Durban Municipality
1974
First listing of the most important places and buildings in Durban
Durban
Durban Municipality

Durban Municipality
1984
A revised listing of the important places and buildings in Durban
Durban
Durban Municipality

Durnford, Edward
1882
A soldier's life and work in South Africa, 1872 to 1879 : a memoir of the late Colonel A.W. Durnford
London
S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington

Groll, Coenraad Liebrecht Temminck; van Alphen, W; der Kat, HCA; van Nederveen Meerkerk, Hannedea & Wevers, LB
2002
Dutch overseas : architectural survey : mutual heritage of four centuries in three continents
Zwolle
Waanders

Hefer, Willem J; Du Toit, CJ; Fagan, Gawie & Fagan, Gwen
1976
Drakenstein : a valley with a place in history
South Africa
Rhodes Fruit Farms Ltd.?

Hes, Dominique & Du Plessis, Chrisna
2015
Designing for hope : pathways to regenerative sustainability
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York
Routledge

Kemp, JT & Du Pisanie, JA
2002
Thirteen unique buildings in Greyton
Pretoria
Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria

Landman, K & Du Plessis, C
2007
South African Journal of Town and Regional Planning



Le Roux, SW & De Villiers, A
2003
Nine Landscapes / Nege Landskappe
Pretoria
Departement Argitektuur

Menache, Philippe & David, Darryl Earl
2010
101 Country Churches of South Africa
South Africa
Booktown Richmond Press

Menache, Philippe & David, Darryl Earl
2012
A Platteland Pilgrimage : 102 country churches of South Africa
South Africa
Booktown Richmond Press

Menache, Philippe & David, Darryl Earl
2015
Church tourism in South Africa : a travel odyssey
South Africa
Self-published by Philippe Menache and Darryl Earl David

Meuser, Philipp & Dalbai, Adil
0
Preface



Meuser, Philipp & Dalbai, Adil (Eds)
2021
Theorising Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa : Perspectives, Questions, and Concepts
Berlin
DOM publishers

Pama, C; D'Oyly, Charles & Knyvett, Frederick
1975
Regency Cape Town : daily life in the early eighteen-thirties
Cape Town
Tafelberg

Pierneef, JH; De Kamper, Gerard & De Klerk, Chris (Artist ; Compilers)
2014
First edition
JH Pierneef in print
Bela-Bela
Dream Africa Productions and Publishing

SAWW & Donaldson, K (Ed.)
1926
Fourteenth edition
South African Who's Who (Social and Business) 1925-1926
Cape Town
Ken Donaldson

SAWW & Donaldson, K (Ed.)
1935
Twentieth edition
South African Who's Who (Social and Business) 1935
Cape Town
Ken Donaldson

SAWW & Donaldson, K (Ed.)
1936
South African Who's Who (Social and Business) 1936
Cape Town
Ken Donaldson

SAWW & Donaldson, K (Ed.)
1938
Twenty-third edition
South African Who's Who (Social and Business) 1938
Cape Town
Ken Donaldson

SAWW & Donaldson, K (Ed.)
1944
Twenty-ninth edition
South African Who's Who (Social and Business) 1944
Cape Town
Ken Donaldson

SAWW & Donaldson, Ken (Eds)
1955
South African Who's Who
Johannesburg
Ken. Donaldson (Pty.), Ltd.

SAWW & Donaldson, K (Ed)
1957
South African Who's Who 1957
Johannesburg
Ken Donaldson (Pty) Ltd