Vernacular architecture

thumb|Etching of a Canadian barn (1888)

thumb|Nida Plateau - Mitata Mitato (, archaic form: , from , "to measure off/to pitch camp") is a term meaning "shelter" or "lodging" in Greek.

thumb|The former Hof Jacobs in Seeth, Nordfriesland district A Haubarg, rarely also Hauberg, is the typical farmhouse of the Eiderstedt peninsula on the northwest coast of Germany and is a type of Gulf house. It emerged in the late 16th century when West Frisian immigrants brought with them the Gulf type of farm building and it continued to be used until the late 19th century. In the Netherlands these houses are called stolpboerderij.

village in France

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

Open air museum in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

building made from a circle of stones topped with a domed roof

thumb|A Georgian nobleman's darbazi-type house in Tbilisi in the early 19th century. thumb|A surviving darbazi roof known as "Gorji poush" in Georgian village Dashkasan, Isfahan, Iran

human settlement in France

entrance to barns for owls

fortified house of the Anglo-Scottish border

small building constructed over a spring

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thumb|The "Great Hafir" at Musawwarat es-Sufra A hafir, or haffir, is an artificially constructed water catchment basin with a circular earthen wall and diameters of between 70-250 m and heights of up to 7 m. Adapted to semi-desert conditions, the hafirs catch the water during the rainy season to have it available for several months during the dry season to supply drinking water, irrigate fields and water cattle. It is used in central Sudan from time immemorial.

thumb|A typical Montafonerhaus in Gemeinde Gaschurn-Partenen|Gaschurn ([[Vorarlberg)]] The Montafonerhaus (or Montafon house) is a house type in the Montafon valley in Vorarlberg (Austria).

thumb|right|250px|Cruck framing, Leigh Court Barn, Worcester, England thumb|The Moirlanich Longhouse, a byre dwelling with a cruck frame A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which support the roof of a building, historically used in England and Wales. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof. These posts are then generally secured by a horizontal beam which then forms an "A" shape. Several of these "crooks" are constructed on the ground and then lifted into position. They are t

palace in Brunei

architecture from North Sumatra, Indonesia

thumb|A postcard photograph inside a maison landaise thumb|Kliese Housebarn in Emmet, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Built ca. 1850 for Friedrich Kliese, an immigrant from Silesia A housebarn (also house-barn or house barn) is a building that is a combination of a house and a barn under the same roof. Most types of housebarn also have room for livestock quarters. If the living quarters are only combined with a byre, whereas the cereals are stored outside the main building, the house is called a byre-dwelling.

type of house in Vietnam

farm

thumb|right|300px|A cortijo near Píñar, [[Granada province, Spain.]] A cortijo is a type of traditional rural dwelling (akin to the German Bauernhof, also known as a farmhouse in English) in the southern half of Spain, including all of Andalusia and parts of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha.

thumb|A bundwerk barn or stadel thumb|left|A bundwerk stadel (detail) thumb|Bundwerk detail on a farmhouse in Glonn Bundwerk is a method of building with timber that was used especially in the 19th century in Austria, South Tyrol and Bavaria. After log construction and timber framing, bundwerk is one of the most widespread forms of timber building techniques. It involved using wooden beams that were arranged partly in a lattice or diagonally over a cross. It often decorated the front and gable sides of agricultural buildings, frequently the grain barn or Stadel of quadrangular farms (Vierseith

type of house found in southwestern Germany

farmhouse type in Germany from the Middle Ages

Spain, Valencia; construction

church or chapel with two storeys, giving two different worship spaces

church building in Takovo, Serbia

A burdei or bordei (, ) is a type of pit-house or half-dugout shelter, somewhat between a sod house and a log cabin. This style is native to the Carpathian Mountains and forest steppes of Eastern Europe.

variation of the Geestharden house, a type of farmhouse that, for centuries, dominated the North Frisian Uthlande, that is the North Frisian Islands, the Halligen and the marshlands of northwest Germany

book by Christopher Alexander

fortified church used also as a retreat

gift shop based on Lewis Carroll's Alice franchise

thumb|Summer hut of the Estrets in the Vicdessos region in the Ariège département (French Pyrenees) Traditionally, an orri referred to an "enclosed area for gathering sheep" in the Eastern Pyrenees. In the late twentieth century, the word has taken on the erroneous meaning of "drystone hut" in Ariège.

building designed for kilning (drying) hops as part of the brewing process

synagogue located in Haute-Corse, in France

Argentine architectural style