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Title :
Butabu - Adobe Architecture of West Africa
Authors :
James Morris, Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher :
Princeton Architectural Press
Year :
2003
ISBN :
1568984138
Language :
English
Description :
In the Sahal region of West Africa (Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso) people have been constructing earthen buildings for centuries. But they remain little known to most of the Western world.
James Morris has extensively photographed this architecture fron the biggest buildings to the small houses in remote animist communities.
Text by Suzanne Preston Blier covers the history, technology, and symbolism of earthen architecture.
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