Vernacular architecture:
1. Boat-shaped roofs of the Tongkonan—the traditional ancestral house of the Torajan people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photograph by Geri Dagys instagram.com/p/CI-lqr_DG6G/
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According to a Torajan legend, the Toraja people arrived "from the north by boats, but caught in a fierce storm, their boats were so badly damaged that they used them as roofs for their new houses"
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2. Bedouin tents in Morocco
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Drawings by Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist Julio Caro Baroja (1914–1995), from his book 'Estudios saharianos' (1955)
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3. Yurts, or Mongolian Gers—the portable, circular dwellings used by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia. [Source of the photos: nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/y]
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And this lovely thread on yurts
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I just spent an hour looking at yurts of #Mongolia. See those white round dots on the map? These are yurts; #nomadic houses. Except now they're used as cheap dwellings on the outskirts of towns: an empty piece of land, a fence, and a #yurt. How does it feel, living there? 
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4. Uma Mbatangu, 'peaked house', the Sumbanese traditional dwelling on the island of Sumba, Indonesia
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For more images and information:
'Sumbanese Traditional Houses in Indonesia / Vernacular Architecture' in 'ArchEyes', August 5, 2020, archeyes.com/sumbanese-trad
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5. The shabonos (or yanos), circular communal dwellings of the Yanomami tribes of Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil
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6. And one of my absolute favourites: The Fujian Tulou, Chinese fortified earth buildings (12th–20th cent.), mostly circular or rectangular in configuration, five stories high & capable of housing up to 800 people
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7. The Igloo, ᐃᒡᓗ in Inuktitut syllabics—we may think we know it, but we don't...
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8. Another example of bioclimatic, vernacular architecture: Chan Chan, largest city in pre-Columbian America
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9. The wooden churches in the Russian North. Photographs by Richard Davies richarddavies.co.uk/woodenchurches
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10. Goju-no-to, an anti-seismic, five-storied pagoda erected in 1407 in Nara, mixing Japanese and Chinese architecture.
In case of earthquakes, the five floors oscillate in opposite phases, preventing the structure from breaking apart...
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11. And as a kind of contrapunct to the pagoda, the cave dwellings and underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey
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12. One of the oldest types of houses still widely used all over the planet—and a frequent setting in my intimate spatial reveries—is the adaptive stilt architecture.
Here's the abandoned village of Ukivok on King Island in the Bering Sea, west of Alaska (photos 1892 and 1978)
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13. Nōka [農家], a traditional wooden farmhouse in Japan, as captured by the great woodblock printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi (1946)
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14. The fortified granary, Ksar Ouled Soltane, located in the district of Tataouine, southern Tunisia.
Ksar means 'granary' and the name Tataouine, well... you know what I mean
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17. The Roofs of Ghadames—an oasis Berber town in the Nalut District of the Tripolitania region in northwestern Libya—also known as 'the pearl of the desert'
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18. The traditional Sámi home called 'gamme'
[Photographs by Ellisif Rannveig Wessel, Bente Haarstad and Fredrik Jenssen]
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And the characteristic Sámi 'njalla', food storage huts raised from the ground to avoid the intrusion of nosy animals such as wolverines and bears
[reddit.com/r/interestinga; sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njalla#/m; Daniel von Hogguér, 'Reise nach Lappland und dem nördlichen Schweden', 1841]
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19. Indian stepwells, also known regionally as 'vav', 'baori', 'baoli', and 'bawadi', are structures that, in the first place, helped harvest water but were also used as subterranean temples and pleasure retreats
[Photographs by Edward Burtynsky and Victoria Lautman]
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20. The fractal geometry of Indian temples: Virupaksha Temple, Dilwara Temples, Kandariya temple and Sri Meenakshi Amman Temple dataisnature.com/?p=2138
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21. The ancient wooden synagogues in Poland
Here is the Zabłudów synagogue as captured in 1895 by art collector and patron Mathias Bersohn for his ethnographic work on wooden synagogues in Poland ('Some Remarks on Ancient Wooden Synagogues in Poland', 1900)
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22. Wooden hermitage in the rocks, Kalampaka (Καλαμπάκα), Greece.
[Photograph by Will Clarke]
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23. Straw architecture in Diourbel, Senegal
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24. The lake village of Ganvié, Benin, Africa, as photographed by Massimo Rumi
massimorumi.com/ganvie-the-ven
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