Abstract:
HOUSE ROOKE at Monaghan Farm,
located near Lanseria in Gauteng, is an
architectural endeavour by client and
architect that extends regional architectural
traditions. In a time of architectural
blight, aesthetic confusion and a plethora
of ill-conceived estate environments, both
parties have succeeded in designing a
refreshingly contextual dwelling that extends
functional and technological traditions
and grounds the architecture in place
and in history. This article will define regionalism
and then briefly contextualise
its effect locally. It will explain how the architecture
of House Rooke is an extension
of regional traditions and how an imitative
and inventive regionally architectural
solution, that can act as a possible model
for others to follow, has been created.
