ABSTRACT
The study of architectural history is a basis for understanding historic buildings and for implementing their conservation and protection. The relevance of examining historical development is outlined by Conway and Roenisch (2005) who state that “studying the past can help us understand how we have arrived at today and give us insights into the production and use of built environments”. Further, Furneaux Jordan (1997) considers the different elements which contribute to architecture stating that:
the … structure and forms of architecture were almost always the product of time and space – of circumstance more than will. Man’s thoughts and actions – his religion, politics, art, technology and aspirations, as well as landscape, geology and climate are the things from which an architecture is born. The art of a civilization, rightly interpreted, is a very precise reflection of the society which produced it.
