‘Samoa’s Iconic Fale: How Culture Informs Architecture' photo & caption
In a mathematically correct semicircle, identical fale were constructed at a precise and substantial distance from each other around a giant malae as shown in illustrations from ‘Samoa’s Iconic Fal






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