Traditions in architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania / Dora P. Crouch, June G. Johnson
Object Details
- Author
- Crouch, Dora P
- Johnson, June Gwendolyn
- Contents relating to Africa: Hausa family buildings of mud houses, Nigeria (pages 26-29) - The Kalahari as an unbuilt environment (pages 58-62) - Hausa extended-family compounds (pages 69-71) - Ethiopian rock-cut churches (pages 107-112) - Space and gender in Islamic society: Kano palace, Nigeria (pages 148-152) - North African mosques (pages 165-169) - Great Zimbabwe in East Africa (pages 183-188) - Painted walls: the Ndebele of South Africa (pages 310-314) - Anthropomorphic architecture in West Africa (pages 333-335).
- 2001
- Type
- Books
- Physical description
- xiii, 433 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm
- Place
- Africa
- Asia
- Oceania
- America
- Ethiopia
- Nigeria
- Kano
- Africa, North
- Benin
- Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city)
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Vernacular architecture
- Architecture, Hausa
- Dwellings
- Hausa compounds (Housing complexes)
- Sarwa camps (Temporary settlements)
- Rock-cut churches
- Palaces
- Mosques
- Mural painting and decoration, Ndebele
- Tamberma symbolism
- Symbolism in architecture
- Record ID
- siris_sil_620596
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0