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Butabu, Adobe Architecture of West Africa
by Suzanne Preston Blier • James Morris (Photographer)
- ART & ARCHITECTURE
- 2003
- HARD COVER
- 216 PAGES
- OUT OF PRINT
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A photographic survey of adobe buildings throughout West Africa, including the great mosque at Djenne (the largest mud building in the world), ordinary houses and huts, arches, domes, colonnades, grillwork and other architectural feats. The book covers a wide geographic scope, taking in Mali and Niger but also astounding villages of Burkina Faso. The accompanying 25-page essay Blier covers the history, technology and cultural significance of adobe in West Africa. With 175 black-and-white and color photographs.
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