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AFRICA Some of the most wonderful indigenous building forms originate in the African continent, from the brightly colored mud huts to the lavish intricacy of the Alhambra. African design sense has intrigued the Western world for centuries. These designs are often more than pretty; they have a social meaning that can be read by those who understand. And then there are the mysteries of the great Egyptian pyramids that have captivated our imagination since they were erected. |
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| zambiaarchitecture.com this is a wonderful website that explores many facets of Zambian architecture. | POSTERS AND ART PRINTS OF EGYPT The ancient mysterious forms of Egyptian architecture have enchanted people for many centuries. |
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African Painted Houses : Basotho Dwellings of Southern Africa by Gary N. Van Wyk, 1998. This book is full of wonderful photographs of African Painted houses. The text is complete in explaining the significance of the illustrations from a historical and present day view. This is a fascinating rich culture. The use of patterns and color, and their meaning come together in an easy to understand format.
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Moorish Architecture
The contrast between the desolate ruined castles on the heights of the sun-baked mountain landscape, and the palaces in the cities, with their cool patios, babbling fountains and scented blossoms testifying to a lifestyle of elegant sophistication - this contrast has stimulated the imagination of the northern European ever since the days of the Romantic movement. |
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Sticks, Stones, & Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids by Martin Isler, Dieter Arnold, 2001. Presents an entirely original approach to the subject of pyramid building. This book reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. Few have closely examined Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Martin Isler is a sculptor and President of InfoGraphis, a New York City trial graphics firm. He has studied the Egyptian pyramids for nearly thirty years. |
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African Architecture: Evolution and Transformation by Nnamdi Elleh, 1996. From Egypt to Ethiopia, Botswana to Burundi, and Zimbabwe to Cameroon, this landmark book presents the first complete and definitive study of African architecture from antiquity to the present. Featuring hundreds of museum-quality photographs and drawings from archival and modern sources, the book offers an ordinary account of the evolution, transformation, and development of architecture across the African continent. Elleh defines the indigenous, Islamic, and Western roots of African architecture, and goes on to examine how these roots influence the architecture of each region in Africa. The final chapter takes a revealing look at modern architecture, urbanism, and urbanization throughout Africa. At once a work of convincing scholarship and a beautifully illustrated tour of African architecture past and present, this is a pioneering book that brings a heretofore rarely examined body of work dramatically to life.
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 Churches of Ethiopia: The Monastery of Narga Sellase by Stanislas Chejnacki, et al, 2000. One of the most important cultural heritages of Christian Ethiopia lies on the shores of Lake Tana. The publication on the monastery of Narga Sellase and the entire pictorial cycle it contains shows it to be one of the crowning points of Ethiopian tradition and culture, its art absorbing the fundamental, century-old contributions of the West as well as of the East. The book documents the evolution of the history and culture of Christian Ethiopia outlining the various typologies of Ethiopian churches (ranging from the basilica to the characteristic round Abissinian one) and reproducing for the first time the great pictorial cycle that covers the entire surface of the maqdas, the Holy of Holies of the Ethiopian church. |
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Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture
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Egyptian Masonry: The Building Craft
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Indigenous African Architecture by René Gardi, 1974 |
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Anatomy of Architecture : Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural
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African Interior Design
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African Canvas: The Art of West African Women
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