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- catalog abstract ""Many of the most noble buildings in Africa are made of the most humble of materials - mud. This adobe architecture shows sublime sculptural beauty, variety, ingenuity, and originality. Its plastic forms - from simple stairways, to rounded arches, to vaulted ceilings - are complemented by striking details such as the protruding timbers that play wonderfully with the strong sunlight while providing structures for annual repairs. 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, from the Friday Mosque at Djenne - the largest mud building in the world - to small houses in remote animist communities. Butabu shows these works as both aesthetic treasures and as structures with contemporary relevance. These are no museum pieces but buildings that continue to be constructed and maintained. Text by Suzanne Preston Blier covers the history, technology, and symbolism of earthen architecture. Together with Morris's photographs, it shows the powerful influence of material and imagination in creating built form."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Adobe architecture of West Africa".
- catalog contributor b13018704.
- catalog contributor b13018705.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""James Morris has extensively photographed this architecture, from the Friday Mosque at Djenne - the largest mud building in the world - to small houses in remote animist communities. Butabu shows these works as both aesthetic treasures and as structures with contemporary relevance. These are no museum pieces but buildings that continue to be constructed and maintained. Text by Suzanne Preston Blier covers the history, technology, and symbolism of earthen architecture. Together with Morris's photographs, it shows the powerful influence of material and imagination in creating built form."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Many of the most noble buildings in Africa are made of the most humble of materials - mud. This adobe architecture shows sublime sculptural beauty, variety, ingenuity, and originality. Its plastic forms - from simple stairways, to rounded arches, to vaulted ceilings - are complemented by striking details such as the protruding timbers that play wonderfully with the strong sunlight while providing structures for annual repairs. 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."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Preface, James Morris -- Plates -- Text by Suzanne Preston Blier -- Introduction -- Temples of Earth: Traditions of Western Sudanese Architecture -- Architectures of Empire: Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Bamana, Fulani and Tukulor -- Djenne and its Influence: Icon, Iconoclasm, and Contestation -- Architectures of Autochthony: Batammaliba, Kassena, Dogon -- Hausa Architecture : Religious Conversion and Mercantile Vision.".
- catalog extent "216 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1568984138 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Princeton Architectural Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa, West.".
- catalog subject "720/.966 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture Africa, West.".
- catalog subject "Building, Adobe Africa, West.".
- catalog subject "Morris, James, 1963-".
- catalog subject "NA1598 .M67 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface, James Morris -- Plates -- Text by Suzanne Preston Blier -- Introduction -- Temples of Earth: Traditions of Western Sudanese Architecture -- Architectures of Empire: Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Bamana, Fulani and Tukulor -- Djenne and its Influence: Icon, Iconoclasm, and Contestation -- Architectures of Autochthony: Batammaliba, Kassena, Dogon -- Hausa Architecture : Religious Conversion and Mercantile Vision.".
- catalog title "Adobe architecture of West Africa".
- catalog title "Butabu : adobe architecture of West Africa / James Morris ; text by Suzanne Preston Blier.".
- catalog type "text".