Johannesburg’s bungalow typology paired colonial speculation with a separatist desire of domination. Today, their skeletons merge with an organically developing intelligence that is radically divergent, and non-architect-based. Mutating composites (bungalow compounds) successfully respond to their residents’ life forms as inscriptions into material worlds, detecting embedded knowledges as local, re-systemised ingenuity.
Bungalow Compounds: Accumulating Interest, Building Values in Johannesburg
Kirsten Dörmann, Sarah de Villiers
