Thursday, February 16, 2012

Architecture

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- Structures differ all over Africa because of it's diverse climates.
- The east African coast is rich in coral that hardens and can be used as building blokes.
- Rain forest areas have wood to build with and planted to weave water-proof roofs.
- They decorate their houses with shells and other colorful fragments stuck in mud.
- The buildings/ houses blend with nature, not like skyscrapers.
- Pise-mud placed in a mold and dried in a shape of a brick for building.
- Stucco-cow dung mixed with bean-pod liquid and and jumbled with ground up shell.

1)  How where the Pyramids of Giza made and why?
2)  Does religion have anything to do with with African architecture?
3) Are these ideas and materials used in another countries?