Falké Barmou

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Elhadj Mamoudou , called Falké Barmou , (* around 1926 ; † 2002 ) was a Nigerien architect .

Life

Falké Barmou belonged to the Hausa ethnic group and came from the village of Yama in central Niger. He was a full-time farmer and was an autodidact architect . Like most of the villagers, he took part in building projects when he was young. Before his marriage he worked as a traveling trader in traditional African medicine and traveled with other men to West Africa , where he visited the cities of Niamey , Ouagadougou , Bamako and Dakar , among others .

After Falké Barmou had already planned several houses in Yama, he was commissioned to build the Great Mosque of Yama in 1962 . Here he combined his knowledge of traditional Hausa architecture with experimental elements. Around 1966 he went on a Hajj to Mecca . The extensive pilgrimage, which took him and his traveling companions for two years, took him to Port Sudan and other areas east of Niger. In the meantime, he hired himself out in agriculture. After several renovations and expansions under his direction, he completed work on the Great Mosque of Yama in 1982. For this work he was awarded the Aga Khan Prize for Architecture in 1986 . Falké Barmou designed several other mosques in the Tahoua region , which his apprentice bricklayer Elhadj Habou helped him build. Elhadj Habou later planned his own buildings. Barmou had a number of other students who, for example, built the house of the canton chief of Illéla and the mosque of Sanam .

Falcon Barmou died 2002. His mosques in the Tahoua region are on the since 2006 Tentative List for World Heritage .

Works

Great Mosque of Salewa

Web links

Commons : Falké Barmou  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lawrence Waldron: Ephemeral Architecture: The Fleeting Forms of West African Adobe Mosques. (PDF) In: Architecture Caribbean. P. 4 , accessed on September 8, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Yaama Mosque. (PDF) 1986 Technical Review Summary. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, pp. 17-18 , accessed on September 8, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Les mosquées en terre de la region de Tahoua. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed September 8, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ James Morris, Suzanne Preston Blier: West African Adobe. In: ArchitectureWeek. April 14, 2004, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 2016 Emerging Professionals Exhibit: Dandaji Library. The American Institute of Architects, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Yaama Mosque. (PDF) Annex: Images and Drawings. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, accessed September 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Barmou, Falké
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elhadj Mamoudou (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien architect
DATE OF BIRTH around 1926
DATE OF DEATH 2002