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village of domed houses on the Hama Road, south of Aleppo, SyriaMiles Lewis
h i th ill f S th f H S ihouse in the village of Sourane, north of Hama, SyriaMiles Lewis
Peñalba, Province of Leon, SpainMiles Lewis
slate roofing, PeñalbaMiles Lewis
(rammed earth)(rammed earth)( )( )
pisé building near San Miguel de la Escalada, Leon, Spain
pisard pisoir or pizonpisard, pisoir or pizon
Miles LewisPierre Chabat, Dictionnaire desPierre Chabat, Dictionnaire des
Termes Employés dans la Construction (Paris 1875), p 1029
the dissemination of pisé de terre
North African originsHannibal’s invasion brings pisé to Spain and France
Spaniards bring pisé to Latin AmericaSpaniards bring pisé to Latin AmericaFrench rediscover pisé late C18thFrench & British agricultural textsFrench & British agricultural texts
English texts reach Australia c 1810direct French influence at Pompallier house, NZEnglish emigrants’ handbooks reach Australia
Ceuta and Barra, North Africa, attract English interestPisé published in the EcclesiologistPisé published in the Ecclesiologist
pisé goes from Mexico to the Californian gold rushCalifornian miners bring pisé to Australiag p
pisé: the literary tradition
FranceGeorges Cla de Goiffon's L'Art d Maçon Pise r 1772Georges-Claude Goiffon's L'Art du Maçon Piseur, 1772Boulard’s article in the Cours d'Agriculture, 1793-1800
Cointeraux École d'Architecture Rurale of 1790-1 1801Cointeraux, École d Architecture Rurale of 1790 1, 1801Rondelet, Traité de l'Art de Bâtir, 1812
Britain (eg)Abraham Rees, Cyclopedia, 1813
Wilds, Cottages and Houses for the Humbler Classes, 1835 Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of the Useful Arts, c 1852
Allen A Rudimentary Treatise on Cottage Building 1853Allen, A Rudimentary Treatise on Cottage Building, 1853
pisé according to Boulard, in Rozier’s Cours d'Agriculture (1793-1800)
pisé construction di taccording to
Cointereaux
Ab h R C l di fAbraham Rees, Cyclopaedia of Arts, Sciences, and Literature
(London 1814)
pisé according to Rondelet, Traité de l'Art de Bâtir of 1812,based upon experience in 1764
'Pompallier House', Kororareka, New Zealand, by Louis Perret , 1841-2.Miles Lewis
'Pompallier House , interior pisé wall surfaceMiles Lewis
'Pompallier House , detail of restored pisé wall surfaceMiles Lewis
'Wanstead', near Campbell Town, Tasmania, c 1830Miles Lewis
'Wanstead', rear viewMiles Lewis
'Wanstead', sunken area at the rearMiles Lewis
pisé house at Dulcott, Pitt Water, TasmaniaMiles Lewis
collapsed wall ofcollapsed wall of the house at
Dulcott
Miles Lewis
f fwall surface of the house at DulcottMiles Lewis
Probation Station Jericho Tasmania 1841: remains of pisé wallsProbation Station, Jericho, Tasmania, 1841: remains of pisé wallsMiles Lewis
pisé house at 791 David Street, Alburyp y(originally in Gable's vineyard), 1857
Miles Lewis
i é t ti f T lipisé construction, from TomlinsonCharles Tomlinson [ed], Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
(in parts, London, no date, c 1851-4), sv Pisé
pisé construction: TomlinsonTomlinson& Rondelet
Tomlinson Cyclopaedia ofTomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, sv Pisé
Rondelet, Traité de l'Art deRondelet, Traité de l Art de Bâtir of 1812
pisé construction by Tomlinson & Rondelet
C d i hCompared with an actual house near
ValenceValence
photo by Patrice Dort / Hugo Houben [Craterre no 29] in the exhibition 'On[Craterre no 29] in the exhibition On Architecture in Raw Earth' by Jean
Dethier at the Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981
construction of a pisé house at Corowa New Southconstruction of a pisé house at Corowa, New South Wales, in about 1926
G F Middleton, Build Your House of Earth (Sydney 1953), p 1
'A View of a Hut in New South Wales’Arthur Phillip, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (London 1789)
Australian Aboriginal bark dwelling, 1930sAustralian Aboriginal bark dwelling, 1930sLewis, Architectura, p 51
'Glendon in August 1823', by either Robert or Helenus ScottMitchell Library, Sydney
‘Barton Hall’, Grampians, Victoria, 1844, by Richard H BunburyNational Gallery of Victoria
selector's hut of logs, slab and bark, using no nails, owned by Mr Stocks of Croajingalong, Gippsland [c 1870]
Nicholas Caire, Gippsland Scenery (Melbourne, no date [c 1886]), no 2
settler's homestead at Emu Flat Victoria 1874settler s homestead at Emu Flat, Victoria, 1874H H Paynting & Malcolm Grant [eds], Victoria Illustrated 1834-1984 (Melbourne 1985), p 447
a barn in Québeca barn in QuébecEric Arthur & Dudley Whitney, The Barn: a vanishing landmark in
North America (New York 1978 [1972]), p 132
development of the south Slovak
house
V l M l LidVaclac Mencl, Lidova Architektura v
Ceskoslovensku (Prague 1980) p 31 fig 581980), p 31, fig 58.
house no 29, Venecia, Bardejov region, CzechoslovakiaVaclac Mencl, Lidova Architektura v Ceskoslovensku (Prague 1980), p 345, fig 820
adobe house with thatched roof USA 1886adobe house with thatched roof, USA, 1886D W King [ed], Homes for Home-Builders (New York 1886), p 109
'A Vill H i'A Village House in Sumatra' (illustration first published 1810)first published 1810)
William Marsden, The History of Sumatra (3rd ed,
2 vols, London 1811 (1783)), pl XIX
settlement at Queen Charlotte's Sound, New Zealand, early C19thBritish Museum
bark-clad house of C17th Huron village, reconstructed at Midland, OntarioAlan Gowans, Looking at Architecture in Canada (Toronto 1958), p 18
s mmer ho se of the Sa k and Fo Indians photo c 1885summer house of the Sauk and Fox Indians, photo c 1885Smithsonian Institute, reproduced in Peter Nabokov & Robert Easton, Native American
Architecture (New York 1989), pp 22-3
bark house at G l NSWGulgong, NSW,
1872
Keast Burke, Gold and Silver: an album of Hill End and
Gulgong photographs from h H l C ll ithe Holtermann Collection (Melbourne 1973), p 83
f b ildi H NSW b k f d i h ia farm building, Hargraves, NSW: bark roof supported with wireMiles Lewis
T B Pearce's bark house, Aireys Inlet, 1850sMiles Lewis
Pearce's house, Aireys Inlet: bark wallMiles Lewis
Pearce's house, Aireys Inlet: interiorMiles Lewis
Anglesea bark house, ?1870s: roof hipMiles Lewis
bark-roofed building at 'Staplegrove', Flynn, Gippsland, built as a barn in the 1870s, converted to a meatworks, 1888
Gary Gilmour
bark ceiling, Hessian family cottage, Rouse Hill, NSWMiles Lewis
log cabin, Fonthill, Tasmania, c 1840E G Robertson, Early Buildings of Southern Tasmania (2 vols, Middle
Park [Victoria] 1970), II, p 395
'K lk ' h t d Mild Shi 1870 b t 1982'Kulkyne' homestead, Mildura Shire, c 1870, burnt 1982photo of ?1890s
'Kulkyne', view from the northMiles Lewis
'Kulkyne', west armMiles Lewis
'Kulkyne', detail of west buildingMiles Lewis
'K Pl i ' h t d C i 1879 f th t'Kow Plains' homestead, Cowangie, c 1879, from the eastMiles Lewis
'Kow Plains’: detail of a wall panelMiles Lewis
'Kow Plains‘: detail f t ith il dof a post with nailed clkeats to support
the logsthe logs
Miles Lewis
farm fences from Abraham Rees, Cyclopaedia, 1814
Melbourne Gaol, 1836, showing the escape of Aboriginal prisoners in 1838 by W F E Liardetprisoners in 1838, by W F E Liardet
Susan Adams [ed Weston Bate], Liardet's Water-Colours of Early Melbourne (Melbourne 1972), no 4
sod house on the American prairies 1886sod house on the American prairies, 1886King, Homes for Home-Builders, p 101
Frank Visek sod house, south-west Custer County, NebraskaTim Turner, 'Sod Houses in Nebraska', APT Bulletin, VII, 4 (1975), p 26
Sod house in Buffalo County,
N b k dNebraska: modern view of decayed
wallwall
Turner, 'Sod Houses in Nebraska', p 34
Ewins house, Blayney, NSW, c 1883Miles Lewis
Ewins house: wall detailMiles Lewis
sod roofed house Burra South Australiasod-roofed house, Burra, South AustraliaJane Lennon
sod roofed barn at Parwan, near MelbourneMiles Lewis
Parwan barn interiorMiles Lewis
Parwan barn: detail of sod roofMiles Lewis
farm buildings at site X, central VictoriaMiles Lewis
barn at site X, central VictoriaMiles Lewis
interior of barn at site XMiles Lewis
roof of barn at site X, central VictoriaMiles Lewis
England and Wales, showing distributionshowing distribution of clay and similar walling materials
Ronald Brunskill, Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular
Architecture (London 1970), p 176
Bear's Castle, Yan Yean, 1840sMiles Lewis
Bear's Castle, older view c 1970Miles Lewis
Bear's Castled d t ildoor detail
Miles Lewis
Rose Hill Villa, Hampshire, England, by James Flitcroft, c 1840Builder, I, 22 (8 July 1843), p 262
Bear’s CastleBear s Castle&
Rose Hill VillaRose Hill Villa
THE URBAN VERNACULARTHE URBAN VERNACULARTHE URBAN VERNACULARTHE URBAN VERNACULAR
cottage, 150 Pelham Street, CarltonMUAS 6 109MUAS 6,109
Cottage, 150 Pelham StreetPelham Street
C tt fCottage for man and wife 'in the common Scotchcommon Scotch
manner'
J C Loudon, An Encyclopædia of Cottage
Farm and Villa Architecture (London
1846 [1833]), p 34
tt 150cottage, 150 Pelham Street
cottage in the Scotch manner
house in a Scottish village
Margaret MonkMargaret Monk
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