BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'ARCHITECTURE EN PIERRE SECHE DE MALTE A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE DRYSTONE ARCHITECTURE OF MALTA Liste compilée par / A list compiled by Christian Lassure L'Ile de Malte présente une remarquable architecture de pierre sèche. Les constructions y ont pour nom "girna", au pluriel "giren". L'ouvrage de référence en la matière est le livre de Michael Fsadani, "The Girna. The Maltese Corbelled Stone Hut", paru en 1992. Nous y avons puisé une bonne partie des références de la présente bibliographie. The Island of Malta boasts an outstanding dry stone architecture. The stone huts there are called "girna" in the singular, "giren" in the plural. The must-have work on the subject is that of Michael Fsadani : "The Girna. The Maltese Corbelled Stone Hut", published in 1992. Most of the entries in this bibliography have been drawn from it. 1961 CASSAR P. (Dr), The Corbelled Stone Huts of the Maltese Islands, in Man, A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science, vol. LXI, April 1961, pp. 65-68 [Les cabanes en pierre à voûte d'encorbellement des îles maltaises] 1970 CESCHI Carlo, Architettura megalitica di Malta, in Atti del XV Congresso di storia dell'Architettura, Rome, 1970 FABER Aleksandra, Le "Bunje" sul littorale Nord-est dell'Adriatico e il problema delle loro origini, in Atti del XV Congresso di storia dell'architettura, Rome, 1970 (comporte une mention des "giren" de Malte) 1971 TONNA Joe, Form-making in Maltese Culture, Unpublished M.A. (Arch.) thesis presented to the Department of Architecture at the University of Malta, 1971 [Les formes dans la culture maltaise] 1975 ZAMMIT Anthony, Housing Concepts in Maltese Culture, Unpublished B.A. (Arch.) thesis presented to the Department of Architecture at the University of Malta, 1975 [Les concepts d'habitat dans la culture maltaise] 1976 Din l-Art Helwa / The National Trust of Malta, Malta's Heritage in Stone / Wirt Malta fil-Gebel, Malta, 1976 [Le patrimoine de pierre maltais] 1977 HARRISON Lewis, Ancient Malta: A Study of its Antiquities, Malta, 1977, p. 21 [Malte antique : étude de ses vestiges] 1979 VELLA Andrew P., Storja ta' Malta, vol. II, Malta, 1979 1980 LASSURE Christian, compte rendu de l'article du Dr. Cassar, The Corbelled Stone Huts of the Maltese Islands, etc., in L'architecture vernaculaire rurale, t. IV, 1980, pp. 157-158 (*) 1984 DELUCCA Denis, Mediterranean Architecture - The Vernacular Idiom in Maltese Architecture, in Atrium, N. 4, Malta, 1984 [L'architecture méditerranéenne - L'expression vernaculaire dans l'architecture maltaise] 1987 THAKE Conrad, The Maltese Vernacular Expression - In Search of a Humane Architecture, Unpublished B.A. (Arch.) thesis presented to the Department of Architecture of the University of Malta, 1987 [La spécificité vernaculaire maltaise - En quête d'une architecture humanisée] 1988 MAHONEY Leonard, A History of Maltese Architecture, Malta, 1988 [Histoire de l'architecture maltaise] 1992 FSADNI Michael, The Girna. The Maltese Corbelled Stone Hut, translated from the Maltese by Louis J. Scerri, Dominican Publication, Malta, 1992 [La "Girna". La cabane en pierre à voûte d'encorbellement de Malte] (*) (*) Cet auteur y affirme qu' "aucun spécialiste étranger ne s'est jamais penché sur les 'giren' de Malte" : il doit s'agir d'un oubli de sa part puisque dès 1980 le CERAV publiait un compte rendu de l'article que le Dr. Cassar avait fait paraître sur les dites "giren" dans la revue Man en 1961. That writer claims that "no foreign scholar has ever written about the giren of Malta", thus obviously overlooking the publishing by the CERAV, as early as 1982, of a detailed review of the article that Dr Cassar had contributed to the anthropological journal Man in 1961. © Christian Lassure Bibliographie en cours de compilation. Dernières modifications le 12 mai 2000 / This bibliography is being compiled. Last modified on May 12, 2000. |