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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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