Visit to the new Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg
An old Shell gas station is turned into a work of modern architecture The first time I went to Johannesburg I was terrified of walking around the city. I had heard so many frightening stories prior to going there that I was sort of paralyzed. Three years later, I had become braver, less prone to […]
Sudano-Sahelian Architecture in Mali
Mali: An Architecture of Earth. Driving from the Dogon country to Bamako, which took us several days, we passed through the towns of Mopti, Djenne, and Segou where we saw stunning examples of Sudano-Sahelian architecture, mostly adobe brick mosques with elaborate mud turrets. These mosques, or more exactly the original ones, were built at the […]
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