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villa
thumb|right|300px|The Villa Medici in Fiesole with early terraced hillside [[landscape by Leon Battista Alberti]]
thumb|The Tamminiemi|Villa Tamminiemi, an [[Art Nouveau styled villa and house museum in Helsinki, Finland]]
Palladian architecture
architectural style derived from the work of Andrea Palladio
postmodern architecture
architectural style that emerged in the 1960s
Tudor architecture
architectural style
terrace house
individual house in a terrace of houses
Georgian architecture
set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840
contemporary architecture
broad range of styles of recently built structures
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townhouse
thumb|300px|Townhouses in Tribeca, Manhattan

chalet
thumb|A typical chalet in the Swiss Alps
Moorish Revival architecture
style in 19th-century European architecture and decorative arts characterized by Hispano-Moresque forms and motifs such as honey comb vaulting, arabesques, and horseshoe arches
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siheyuan
thumb|260px|right|Yunnan, [[Kunming]]
A siheyuan (; [sɹ̩̂.xɤ̌.ɥɛ̂n];Sìhéyuàn) is a traditional Chinese architectural style characterized by a courtyard enclosed by buildings on all four sides. This design was prevalent throughout northern China, notably in Beijing and rural Shanxi. Historically, siheyuan served as the foundational layout for various structures, including residences, palaces, temples, monasteries, family businesses, and government offices.
farmhouse
thumb|A farmhouse (at bottom) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland
thumb|The Devil's Farmhouse in [[Mellieħa, Malta, built by the Order of St. John with limestone]]
Prairie School architecture
architectural style
Icelandic turf house
Icelandic solution to a shortage of building timber
English country house
larger mansion estate in England, UK
Greek Revival architecture
architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
Queen Anne style
architectural style
log house
type of house, built from wooden logs; much the same as a log cabin
Moroccan riad
traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden or courtyard
Cube House
type of house designed by architect Piet Blom, built in Rotterdam and in Helmond, the Netherlands
Painted Ladies
series of row houses in San Francisco, California, United States
Italianate architecture
19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture
Federal architecture
architectural style in USA (1780-1830)
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neo-Mudéjar
Neo-Mudéjar is a type of Moorish Revival architecture practised in the Iberian Peninsula and to a far lesser extent in Ibero-America. This architectural movement emerged as a revival of Mudéjar style. It was an architectural trend of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that began in Madrid and Barcelona and quickly spread to other regions in Spain and Portugal. It used Mudéjar style elements such as the horseshoe arch, arabesque tiling, and abstract shaped brick ornamentations for the façades of modern buildings.

shoin-zukuri
is a style of Japanese architecture developed in the Muromachi, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods that forms the basis of today's traditional-style Japanese houses. Characteristics of the development were the incorporation of square posts and floors, i.e. those completely covered with tatami. The style takes its name from the , a term that originally meant a study and a place for lectures on sutras in a temple, but which later came to mean just a drawing room or study.
prefabricated home
specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building
Second Empire style
architectural and art style, most popular between 1865 and 1880
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
architectural style
log building
method of constructing buildings from wooden logs

shotgun house
housing style common among lower/working class residents of the Southern United States
rorbu
300px|thumb|Rorbu in Reine
Upper Lusatian house
special type of house that combines log house, timber-framing and building stone methods of construction
Gingerbread house
Victorian-era architectural style
mid-century modern
architectural, interior, product, and graphic design of the mid-20th century
saltbox
building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back
Richardsonian Romanesque
Romanesque Revival architectural style, named for Henry Hobson Richardson
Antebellum architecture
neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States
clapboard
thumb|right|Oak clapboards lean-to attic Ephraim Hawley House, United States
thumb|Clapboard siding wood stain|stained dark brown
thumb|Captain William Smith House at Minute Man National Historical Park, United States, a restored [[saltbox house with unpainted clapboard siding]]
Shingle style architecture
plain American house style with little ornamentation
Low German house
type of timber-framed farmhouse found in Northern Germany and the Netherlands, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof
Colonial Revival architecture
American architectural style
octagon house
unique house style briefly popular in the 1850s in the United States and Canada
Rumah Melayu
Traditional wood-made house style across Malay Archipelago
butterfly roof
type of roof
tower houses in the Balkans
tower houses in the Balkans during the Ottoman period
great house
large and stately residence with large number of domestic workers in employment
familok
thumb|A familok house in Ruda Śląska
thumb|Red windowframes typical to familoks
A familok is a type of multi-family house, originally designed for workers of industries and their families, mainly coal miners. Familoks were built at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, in the cities and towns of Upper Silesia. They are present in almost every sizeable Silesian city.
brownstone
thumb|300x300px|Brownstones in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City
300px|thumb|Biking among brownstones in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material.
post-and-plank
thumb|Ancient example of partial bohlenständerkonstruktion from the 13th century in Dornbirn, Austria
thumb| Bunge Museum in Gotland, 17th century. The wall planks fit into grooves in the posts.
thumb|A 17th century barn recognized as a cultural heritage monument in Bassum, Germany. Note the wattle-work for ventilation.
thumb|Reconstruction of building remains found at Biskupin, Poland. from circa 738 B.C.
thumb|Bulhus in Gotland
American colonial architecture
building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States
Queenslander
term in architecture
culă
thumb|361x361px|right|Cula Greceanu from Măldărești, Vâlcea
A culă (plural: cule; from Turkish kule "tower, turret") is a type of semi-fortified dwelling historically found in the Oltenia region of Romania, with notable examples also in Muntenia (in the counties of Argeș and Teleorman). Constructed primarily between the 17th and 19th centuries, these structures served as residences for the boyar aristocracy, offering protection against invasions and local uprisings. Architecturally, cule are characterized by their tower-like appearance, typically featuring multiple levels, thick walls, and def
McMansion
ranch-style house
domestic architectural style originating in the United States
list of house types
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Stick style
late-19th-century American architectural style
Mayan Revival architecture
modern Architectural style that draws inspiration from pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures
American Craftsman
American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle
split-level home
style of house
owl hole
entrance to barns for owls