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village of domed houses on the Hama Road, south of Aleppo, Syria
Miles Lewis
house in the village of Sourane, north of Hama, Syria
Miles Lewis
Pealba, Province of Leon, Spain
Miles Lewis
slate roofing, Pealba
Miles Lewis
pis de terre
(rammed earth)
pis building near San Miguel
de la Escalada, Leon, Spain
pisard, pisoir or pizon
Miles Lewis
Pierre Chabat, Dictionnaire des
Termes Employs dans la
Construction (Paris 1875), p 1029
the walls of Mansourah, Algeria, C15th
Miles Lewis
the walls of Mansourah, Algeria, C15th
Miles Lewis
 the dissemination of pis de terre
North African origins
Hannibals invasion brings pis to Spain and France
Spaniards bring pis to Latin America
French rediscover pis late C18th
French & British agricultural texts
English texts reach Australia c 1810
direct French influence at Pompallier house, NZ
English emigrants handbooks reach Australia
Ceuta and Barra, North Africa, attract English interest
Pis published in the Ecclesiologist
pis goes from Mexico to the Californian gold rush
Californian miners bring pis to Australia
 pis: the literary tradition
France
Georges-Claude Goiffon's L'Art du Maon Piseur, 1772
Boulards article in the Cours d'Agriculture, 1793-1800
Cointeraux, cole d'Architecture Rurale of 1790-1, 1801
Rondelet, Trait de l'Art de Btir, 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, 1853
pis according to Boulard, in Roziers Cours d'Agriculture (1793-1800)
 pis construction
according to
Cointereaux

Abraham Rees, Cyclopaedia of

Arts, Sciences, and Literature
(London 1814)
pis according to Rondelet, Trait de l'Art de Btir of 1812,
based upon experience in 1764
'Pompallier House', Kororareka, New Zealand, by Louis Perret , 1841-2.
Miles Lewis
'Pompallier House , interior pis wall surface
Miles Lewis
'Pompallier House , detail of restored pis wall surface
Miles Lewis
'Wanstead', near Campbell Town, Tasmania, c 1830
Miles Lewis
'Wanstead', rear view
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'Wanstead', sunken area at the rear
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pis house at Dulcott, Pitt Water, Tasmania
Miles Lewis
collapsed wall of
the house at
Dulcott

Miles Lewis
wall surface of the house at Dulcott
Miles Lewis
Probation Station, Jericho, Tasmania, 1841: remains of pis walls
Miles Lewis
pis house at 791 David Street, Albury
(originally in Gable's vineyard), 1857
Miles Lewis
 pis construction, from Tomlinson
Charles Tomlinson [ed], Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
(in parts, London, no date, c 1851-4), sv Pis
 pis construction:
Tomlinson
& Rondelet

Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of
Useful Arts, sv Pis

Rondelet, Trait de l'Art de

Btir of 1812
 pis construction by
Tomlinson & Rondelet
Compared with an
actual house near
Valence
photo by Patrice Dort / Hugo Houben
[Craterre no 29] in the exhibition 'On
Architecture in Raw Earth' by Jean
Dethier at the Centre Georges
Pompidou, 1981
pis cottage at
Amphitheatre,
Victoria

Gordon Stokes
construction of a pis house at Corowa, New South
Wales, in about 1926
G F Middleton, Build Your House of Earth (Sydney 1953), p 1
BARK
 'A View of a Hut in New South Wales
Arthur Phillip, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (London 1789)
 native huts, Jervis Bay, c 1837
James Backhouse, A Narrative or a Visit to the Australian Colonies (Hamilton, Adams, & Co. London 1843), p 469
Aboriginal huts, Moreton Bay [Brisbane], painted by Owen Stanley, 1848
J G Steele, Brisbane Town in Convict Days, 1824-1842 (St Lucia [Queensland] 1975), fig 92
Australian Aboriginal bark dwelling, 1930s
Lewis, Architectura, p 51
'Glendon in August 1823', by either Robert or Helenus Scott
Mitchell Library, Sydney
Barton Hall, Grampians, Victoria, 1844, by Richard H Bunbury
National 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, 1874
H H Paynting & Malcolm Grant [eds], Victoria Illustrated 1834-1984 (Melbourne 1985), p 447
 a barn in Qubec
Eric Arthur & Dudley Whitney, The Barn: a vanishing landmark in
North America (New York 1978 [1972]), p 132
 development of
the south Slovak
house

Vaclac Mencl, Lidova

Architektura v
Ceskoslovensku (Prague
1980), p 31, fig 58.
 house no 29, Venecia, Bardejov region, Czechoslovakia
Vaclac Mencl, Lidova Architektura v Ceskoslovensku (Prague 1980), p 345, fig 820
 adobe house with thatched roof, USA, 1886
D W King [ed], Homes for Home-Builders (New York 1886), p 109
 'A Village House in
Sumatra' (illustration
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 C19th
British Museum
bark-clad house of C17th Huron village, reconstructed at Midland, Ontario
Alan Gowans, Looking at Architecture in Canada (Toronto 1958), p 18
summer house of the Sauk and Fox Indians, photo c 1885
Smithsonian Institute, reproduced in Peter Nabokov & Robert Easton, Native American
Architecture (New York 1989), pp 22-3
 bark house at
Gulgong, NSW,
1872

Keast Burke, Gold and Silver:

an album of Hill End and
Gulgong photographs from
the Holtermann Collection
(Melbourne 1973), p 83
a farm building, Hargraves, NSW: bark roof supported with wire
Miles Lewis
T B Pearce's bark house, Aireys Inlet, 1850s
Miles Lewis
Pearce's house, Aireys Inlet: bark wall
Miles Lewis
Pearce's house, Aireys Inlet: interior
Miles Lewis
Anglesea bark house, ?1870s: roof hip
Miles 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, NSW
Miles Lewis
LOGS
 log cabin, Fonthill, Tasmania, c 1840
E G Robertson, Early Buildings of Southern Tasmania (2 vols, Middle
Park [Victoria] 1970), II, p 395
'Kulkyne' homestead, Mildura Shire, c 1870, burnt 1982
photo of ?1890s
'Kulkyne', view from the north
Miles Lewis
'Kulkyne', west arm
Miles Lewis
'Kulkyne', detail of west building
Miles Lewis
'Kow Plains' homestead, Cowangie, c 1879, from the east
Miles Lewis
'Kow Plains: detail of a wall panel
Miles Lewis
'Kow Plains: detail
of a post with nailed
clkeats to support
the logs

Miles Lewis
SODS
farm fences from Abraham Rees, Cyclopaedia, 1814
Melbourne Gaol, 1836, showing the escape of Aboriginal
prisoners 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, 1886
King, Homes for Home-Builders, p 101
Frank Visek sod house, south-west Custer County, Nebraska
Tim Turner, 'Sod Houses in Nebraska', APT Bulletin, VII, 4 (1975), p 26
 Sod house in
Buffalo County,
Nebraska: modern
view of decayed
wall

Turner, 'Sod Houses in

Nebraska', p 34
Ewins house, Blayney, NSW, c 1883
Miles Lewis
Ewins house: wall detail
Miles Lewis
building near Dimboola, Victoria
Miles Lewis
building near Dimboola
details of blocks and
reinforcement
Miles Lewis
sod-roofed house, Burra, South Australia
Jane Lennon
sod roofed barn at Parwan, near Melbourne
Miles Lewis
Parwan barn interior
Miles Lewis
Parwan barn: detail of sod roof
Miles Lewis
farm buildings at site X, central Victoria
Miles Lewis
barn at site X, central Victoria
Miles Lewis
interior of barn at site X
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roof of barn at site X, central Victoria
Miles Lewis
COB
England and Wales,
showing distribution
of clay and similar
walling materials

Ronald Brunskill, Illustrated

Handbook of Vernacular
Architecture (London 1970), p
176
Bear's Castle, Yan Yean, 1840s
Miles Lewis
Bear's Castle, older view c 1970
Miles Lewis
Bear's Castle
door detail

Miles Lewis
Rose Hill Villa, Hampshire, England, by James Flitcroft, c 1840
Builder, I, 22 (8 July 1843), p 262
Bears Castle
&
Rose Hill Villa
THE URBAN VERNACULAR
cottage, 150 Pelham Street, Carlton
MUAS 6,109
 Cottage, 150
Pelham Street

Cottage for man

and wife 'in the
common Scotch
manner'

J C Loudon, An
Encyclopdia of Cottage
Farm and Villa
Architecture (London
1846 [1833]), p 34
 cottage, 150
Pelham Street

cottage in the
Scotch manner

house in a Scottish
village
Margaret Monk