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Letter Re: The Afghan Walled Courtyard Design for Retreat Architecture
James,
My daily internet traipsing brought me across a photoset
of Afghan walled compounds.
It seems that the basic unit of Afghan country life is the extended family,
all of whom live within a 12 foot walled compound. Since Afghanistan has lacked
real sovereignty for centuries, this seems to be the logical endpoint of the
evolution of retreat/farms. Note that they are not unlike the early spanish
missions in the American Southwest. - Isaac R.
