Vernacular architecture

thumb|Timber framed with siding of vertical boards was typical in early New England. The traditional color is the result of iron oxide stain applied to protect the wood from UV damage. thumb|The Texas Technological College Dairy Barn in [[Lubbock, Texas, U.S., was used as a teaching facility until 1967.]] thumb|Russian women using a hand powered winnowing machine in a threshing barn. Note the board across the doorway to prevent grain from spilling out of the barn, this is the origin of the term threshold. Painting from 1894 by [[Klavdy Lebedev titled the floor or the threshing floor (Гумно).]]

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|A small granary (early 19th century), Slovenia

thumb|upright=1.4|Chozos (Spanish: 'huts') in western Spain

building technique, construction method using heavy squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers

thumb|Adobe wall (detail) in Bahillo, Palencia, Spain thumb|Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in [[Chamisal, New Mexico]] thumb|Adobe walls separate urban gardens in Shiraz, Iran

type of museum; museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors

thumb|A cottage on Inch Island, Ireland

thumb|right|Brown brick bungalow with roof windows in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, U.S. A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is typically single- or one-and-a-half-storey. If a smaller upper storey exists, then it is frequently set in the roof and windows that come out from the roof. It may be surrounded by wide verandas.

thumb|A North American Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast|Pacific Northwest Coast-style longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the [[University of British Columbia]] A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single or multi-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.

thumb|300px|Row of trullo houses on Monte Pertica street in Alberobello, [[Bari Province, Apulia, southern Italy]] A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers. In the town of Alberobello, in the province of Bari, whole districts contain dense concentrations of trulli. The golden age of trulli w

category of architecture based on local needs, construction materials and reflecting local traditions

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

A ' (; name in South Korea) or chosŏnjip''''' (; name in North Korea and for Koreans in Yanbian, China) is a traditional Korean house. were first designed and built in the 14th century during the Joseon dynasty.

art style in post-Islamic Spain

simple dwelling constructed of logs

thumb|A typical chalet in the Swiss Alps

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]]

shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground

250px|thumb|Canvas-sided sukkah on a roof, topped with palm branches and bamboo s'chach 250px|thumb|Sukkah with walls made of cardboard signs in Oakland, California

thumb|The Tōmatsu house from Funairi-chō, Nagoya, is an example of a large . thumb| façade in Kyoto thumb|right|Old fabric shop in Nara, Nara|Nara are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. ('townhouses') and ('farm dwellings') constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular architecture known as ('folk dwellings').

right|thumb|A -styled home in Shirakawa, Gifu (village)|Shirakawa village, [[Gifu Prefecture]] are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society, were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes). This connotation no longer exists in the modern Japanese language, and any traditional Japanese-style residence of appropriate age could be referred to as . thumb|Okugame minka farmhouse are characterized by their basic structure, their roof structure, and their roo

small Christian worship space

mosque in Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Polish architectural style

open structure with a movable roof for storing loose hay on a farm

thumb|250px|Reconstructed blackhouse, Highland Folk Museum A blackhouse ( ; ) is a traditional type of house which used to be common in Ireland, the Hebrides, and the Scottish Highlands.

thumb|250px|An undecorated rondavel Rondavel is a style of African hut known in literature as cone on cylinder or cone on drum. The word comes from the Afrikaans rondawel.

village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK

thumb|upright=1.2|A terraced layout allows a row of shophouses to extend as long as a city block permits, as exemplified by this long row of shophouses in Singapore. All the shophouses are linked by a covered passageway called the [[five-foot way at the front.]]

thumb|300px|The baserri at the Eduardo Chillida|Chillida Museum in Hernani A baserri (; Spanish: caserío vasco; French: maison basque) is a traditional half-timbered or stone-built type of housebarn farmhouse found in the Basque Country in northern Spain and Southwestern France. The baserris, with their gently sloping roofs and entrance portals, are highly characteristic of the region and form a vital part in traditional Basque societal structures. They are also seen to have played an important role in protecting the Basque language in periods of persecution by providing the language with a ve

thumb|250px|Palloza in O Cebreiro, in the municipality of [[Pedrafita do Cebreiro. The ethnographic park of this town, the first step in Galician land of the French Way, has several restored examples of traditional palloza, buildings characteristic of the pre-Roman culture which still exists in many other parts of the natural region of Os Ancares]]

building where cereal grain is converted into malt

thumb|Modhif at Neserya thumb|The interior of an Iraqi mudhif A Mudhif ( al-muḍīf) is a traditional reed house made by the Ahwari people (also known as Marsh Arabs) in the swamps of southern Iraq. In the traditional Ahwari way of living, houses are constructed from reeds harvested from the marshes where they live. A mudhif is a large ceremonial house, paid for and maintained by a local sheik, for use by guests or as a gathering place for weddings, funerals, etc.

method of constructing buildings from wooden logs

type of small fortified keep or tower house found on the sides of the English-Scottish border

thumb|right|A on the Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland thumb|A reconstruction of a square-shaped beehive hut at the Irish National Heritage Park, County Wexford A ' (plural ) or beehive hut' is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most of these structures is unknown with the buildings belonging to a long-established Celtic tradition, though there is at present no direct evidence to date the surviving examples before . Some associated with religious sites may be pre-Romanesque, some consider that the mo

thumb|300px|right|A cabana in Ayampe, Manabí Province, Ecuador.

thumb|right|Chardak, constructed in 1771 A chardak (Bulgarian, Macedonian and , čardak) is an old typical house in the Balkans. It is derived from the word çardak, which is a component of Ottoman Turkish house design. This term, which is also called sofa, denotes an open hall of a house's upper living floor.

thumb|right|260px|La Masia|La Masia de Can Planes in Les Corts, Barcelona

housing style common among lower/working class residents of the Southern United States

special type of house that combines log house, timber-framing and building stone methods of construction

building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back

thumb|Lairig Leacach Bothy, Lochaber, Scotland A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. It was also a term for basic accommodation, usually for gardeners or other workers on an estate. Bothies are found in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, Northern England, Ulster, and Wales. They are particularly common in the Scottish Highlands, but related buildings can be found around the world (for example, in the Nordic countries there are wilderness huts). A bothy was also a semi-legal drinking den on the Isle of Lewis. These, such as Bothan E

open air museum in Poland

traditional farmhouse in southern France as well as in Catalonia and Aragon

architectural house or building style, characterized by a steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground

A sod roof, or turf roof, is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards.

type of timber-framed farmhouse found in Northern Germany and the Netherlands, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof

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

overview of the architecture of Madagascar

farm

right|thumb|300px|A barabara (Aleut: ulax̂), the traditional Aleut winter house A barabara or barabora (Russian); ulax̂, ulaagamax, ulaq, or ulas (plural) (Aleut); and ciqlluaq (Alutiiq ~ Sugpiaq) were the traditional, main or communal dwelling used by the Alutiiq people and Aleuts, the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands. They lay partially underground like an earth lodge or pit-house, and most of the house was excavated from the dirt so as to withstand the high forces of wind in the Aleutian chain of islands. Barabaras are no longer used, as present-day Aleuts live in modern houses and

Semi-subterranean building

archaeological house-type often associated with early Israelites

thumb|Pazo de Meirás in Sada (19th century), summer home of [[Francisco Franco]] A pazo () is a type of Galician traditional house. Similar to a manor house, pazos are usually located in the countryside, as former residences of important people in the community (formerly of kings and nobility). They were of crucial importance in the 17th to 19th centuries, related to rural and monastic architecture and the system of feudal organization, and they constituted a type of local management unit around which the life of the villagers revolved. Over time they became the social symbol and refuge of the

Stilt house native to the Philippines

traditional House in Aceh, Indonesia