Indigenous architecture

thumb|A traditional Kyrgyzs|Kyrgyz yurt thumb|A Karakalpaks|Karakalpak bentwood type "yourte" in [[Khwarezm (or Karakalpakstan), Uzbekistan]] thumb|Turkmen woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan; 1913 picture by Prokudin-Gorsky

thumb|upright=1.35|Community of igluit (Illustration from Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux, 1865) An igloo (Inuit languages: or , Inuktitut syllabics ; plural: ), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow.

thumb|An Oglala Lakota tipi, 1891

thumb|right|Apache wickiup, by [[Edward S. Curtis, 1903]] thumb|200px|Apache wickiup A wigwam, wikiup, wetu (Wampanoag), or wiigiwaam (Ojibwe, in syllabics: ) is a semi-permanent domed dwelling formerly used by certain Native American tribes and First Nations people and still used for ceremonial events. The term wikiup is generally used to refer to these kinds of dwellings in the Southwestern United States and Western United States and Northwest Alberta, Canada, while wigwam is usually applied to these structures in the Northeastern United States as well as Ontario and Quebec in Central Canada

buildings used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator

simple dwelling constructed of logs

thumb|300px|, an ancient marae constructed of stone on in the Society Islands of [[French Polynesia, restored in 1994]]

thumb|Terp on the hallig of Hooge thumb|Halligwarft während einer Sturmflut, "Hallig terp during a storm tide"; a dramatic 1906 illustration thumb|1862 illustration thumb|Westerwerft on Hooge, Germany|Hallig Hooge thumb|Hallig Gröde from the East, showing the Kirchwarft and the Knudswarft (mouseover markings) thumb|On Hamburger Hallig A terp, also known as a wierde, woerd, warf, warft, werf, werve, wurt or værft, is an artificial dwelling mound found on the North European Plain that has been created to provide safe ground during storm surges, high tides and sea or river flooding. The various t

hut made of natural materials, used by indigenous peoples for a purification ceremony

thumb|260px|Temazcal at the Joya de Cerén archaeological site, El Salvador A temazcal is a type of sweat lodge, which originated with indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. The term temazcal comes from the Nahuatl language, either from the words (to bathe) and (house), or from the word (house of heat).

thumb|Reconstruction of a peat goahti at Skansen open-air museum thumb|A reconstruction of a wooden goahti right|thumb|A Sami family in front of goahti. The tent in the background is a lavvu. Note the differences in the pole placement of the two structures. This photo was taken around 1900 in northern [[Scandinavia.]] A goahti (Northern Sámi), goahte (Lule Sámi), gåhte (Pite Sámi), gåhtie (Ume Sámi), куэдтҍ (Kildin Sámi), or gåetie (Southern Sámi), (also gábma), (Norwegian: gamme, Finnish: kota, Swedish: kåta), is a Sámi hut or tent of three types of covering: fabric, peat moss or timber. The

A yaodong (窰 in native Jin Chinese, or 窰洞 yáodòng in Beijing Mandarin) is a particular form of earth shelter dwelling common in the Loess Plateau in China's north. They are generally carved out of a hillside or excavated horizontally from a central "sunken courtyard".

thumb|right|300px|The evolution of the hogan as of the 1930s. A hogan ( or ; from Navajo '''' ) is the primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people. A hogan has walls and roof of timber, with or without internal support posts, and is covered with packed earth and stone in varying amounts. Hogans can be round, cone-shaped, multi-sided, or square; the door traditionally faces east to welcome the rising sun.

building

thumb|right|Exterior of a quinzhee, facing the entrance

Semi-subterranean building

thumb|Tāne-nui-ā-rangi, the wharenui at :mi:Waipapa Marae|Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland thumb|Inside Tāne-nui-ā-rangi at :mi:Waipapa Marae|Waipapa Marae thumb| right|A modern wharenui at Te Papa, a museum in Wellington

type of traditional Ainu Settlement

mosque in Çarşamba, Samsun, northern Turkey