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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