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| Author: | Fisher, RC & Gaylard, FB Illustrator |
| Year: | 1992 |
| Title: | Visual Lexicon of the South African Dwelling - Visuele Leksikon van die Suid-Afrikaanse Woning |
| Place: | Cape Town |
| Publisher: | Unibook |
Drawings by Frank Gaylard. There is surely no better way to discover the manifold variety of South African architectural form than through a pictorial guide such as this one. The Visual Lexicon of the South African Dwelling functions as an instructional manual, but it also creates an opportunity to identify structure and ornamental building form for appreciation at an aesthetic level. It will be of value to anyone, from the professional architect to amateur home-maker, who takes an interest in building design. An overdue sourcebook, clearly presented and modestly priced and therefore available to a wide readership - (no doubt due to sponsorship of individual pages which is gently acknowledged). This booklet is also ambitious. It is a bilingual pictorial dictionary of aspects both of building and architecture. But as it is restricted to one building type, the domestic dwelling, it is likely to find many a reader anxiously awaiting a second volume. (Walter Peters Historia 1993)
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