How a Return to Vernacular Architecture Can Benefit the ... - ArchDaily
2017年4月7日 · Through the vernacular building techniques of the Dogon--and most vernacular building techniques for that matter--transportation costs are reduced to almost nothing.
Vernacular architecture of Dogon Country and its development
2019年3月7日 · The Dogon also build houses and villages on the plateau on top and the plains below, adapting the architecture accordingly. The Tellem lived on the face of the Bandiagara cliff and the Dogon see Tellem buildings as part of their heritage.
Dogon people - Wikipedia
The Dogon are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, and in Burkina Faso. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000. [2]
15 Things You Didn’t Know About The Dogon People Of Mali
2015年3月18日 · Houses. Depending on where the Dogon’s houses are (on top of cliff, in middle or on the plains), houses adapt to their location and reflect their ingenuity and philosophy. The gin’na (family house) is built on two levels and is built from banco.
How the Dogon Preserved Their Unique Culture Along The Cliff …
2019年3月2日 · The Incredible Culture of the Dogons. There are over 200 Dogon villages across the escarpment and each village has a democratically elected headman (Hogon), who is also their spiritual leader. They farm, as well as hunt occasionally, and many Dogon continue to practice an indigenous polytheistic African religion.
Hidden Tribe: The Dogon of Mali - Go World Travel Magazine
Houses of the Dogon. The Tellem had built elaborate cave dwellings high on the vertical rock walls that form this desert area of western Africa, keeping them safe from the much larger slave traders. Dogon built their villages on slopes, creating elaborate mud houses with thatched roofs that, from a distance, blend perfectly with the land.
Art and Architecture of the Dogon – Benjamin Breen
2010年8月4日 · A cliff village originally built by the Tellem people, a civilization aboriginal to the region that the Dogon displaced. Individual Dogon buildings are quite beautiful as well, exhibiting a seamless integration of painting and sculpture with architecture that I find quite appealing.
Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings - Atlas Obscura
2011年6月7日 · Although a range of people lived in the area, for over 600 years the Dogon people have made Southern Mali their home, carving everything from simple rectangular homes into the cliff walls to...
Building on Architectural Traditions of the Sahel
2020年7月15日 · Morris: Along a dramatic cliff in central Mali, known as the Bandiagara escarpment, Dogon peoples have evolved highly expressive architectural styles particular to their animistic belief systems. This picture is a detail of the house of a Hogon, a religious chief.
West African Architecture – A Journey Through Tradition and …
2024年8月3日 · Dogon Houses: Rectangles within rectangles representing human forms. Tallensi Granaries : Radiating internal walls symbolizing a spiritual center. Great Mosque of Djenné : Engaged pillars as ancestral symbols.