document.writeln("<table><tr><!-- Culture Story INTRO --><td align=left valign=top width=25%><a href=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2004/0225/culture_1-1.html><img src=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2004/0225/images/12377_image_1.150.jpg width=150 height=150 border=0 alt='ArchWeek Image'></a></td><td align=left valign=top width=75%><p style='text-align: left'><a href=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2004/0225/culture_1-1.html><font size=+0 face=Helvetica,Arial color=#000000>WEST AFRICAN ADOBE</font></a></p><p style='text-align: left'>Too often, when people in the West think of African architecture, they imagine nothing more than a mud hut — a primitive vernacular remembered from an old Tarzan movie. Why this ignorance to the richness of West African buildings? Possibly it is because the great dynastic civilizations of the region were already in decline when the European colonizers first exposed these cultures to the West.</p><p style='text-align: right'><a href=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2004/0225/culture_1-1.html><img src=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/images/continue.gif width=96 height=22 border=0 alt=Continue...></a></p></td></tr></table>");
