Bokaap Faces and Facades (Cape Town history and architecture)
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Lesley and Stephen Townsend, Bokaap Faces and Facades: A Record of the Passing Scene in Cape Town's Malay Quarter With a Brief Account of its Architecture and the Muslim Inhabitants. Cape Town: Timmins, 1977.
Large square format (26 x 26 cm), hard cover, dust wrapper, 141 pages, illustrated in monochrome photographs throughout.
Dustwrapper torn and worn. Generally, in good, clean condition.
'Bokaap, or the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, is the largest concentration of pre-1840 architecture to be found in South Africa, and it presents an unequalled picture of late 18th and early 19th century Cape townscape. It was declared a national monument in 1966. The authors, a husband and wife team of architects, one of whom was the Cape Town City Council architect in charge of the restoration of the national monument project, here present us with photographs, archivalia and words illustrating this valuable part of our architectural heritage.
'In their determination to convey to the reader the significance of the heritage that is Bokaap, the authors have woven many threads together - the background and principal elements of the architecture, the history of the Muslims at the Cape and how they came to be identified with the Quarter, and its restoration as a national monument'
