African adobe - Eye: a showcase for the visual arts - Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa - Banco: Adobe Mosques of the Inner Niger Delta - Brief Article - Book Review

Black Issues Book Review, March-April, 2004 by Clarence V. Reynolds

A down-to-earth material such as clay, or mud, so to speak, has been used to build some of the most simple yet elegant and notable architecture in Africa. These two books--illustrated by Moore's exquisite color images and Schutyser's picturesque black and white photographs--capture the various buildings from small houses to large mosques that have been constructed and maintained for centuries, but have been given little attention in the Western imagination.

--Reviewed by C.V.R.

Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa

by James Morris, text by Suzanne Preston Blier Princeton Architectural Press December 2003 $50.00, ISBN 1-568-95413-8

Banco: Adobe Mosques of the Inner Niger Delta

by Sebastian Schutyser 5 Continents Editions September 2003 $39.95, ISBN 8-874-39051-3