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Victoria Lautman's photo essay 'India's Forgotten Stepwells' is excellent: archdaily.com/395363/india-s

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5. The fractal geometry of Indian temples: Virupaksha Temple, Dilwara Temples and Kandariya temple dataisnature.com/?p=2138

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Sri Meenakshi Amman Temple

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6. Boat-shaped roofs of the Tongkonan—the traditional ancestral house of the Torajan people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photograph by Geri Dagys

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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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7. 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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8. Uma Mbatangu, 'peaked house', the Sumbanese traditional dwelling on the island of Sumba, Indonesia

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'Sumbanese Traditional Houses in Indonesia: Vernacular Architecture', in 'ArchEyes', August 5, 2020, archeyes.com/sumbanese-trad

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9. The wooden churches in the Russian North. Photographs by Richard Davies

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10. 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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11. Traditional hut of the Giriama tribe in Kenya

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12. Basalt tuff, rock-cut architecture in Cappadocia, found in central Anatolia and parts of Iran. [Photo by Haitham Alfalah]

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13. Jacques Majorelle's depictions of Moroccan vernacular architecture from his portfolio, 'Les Kasbahs de l'Atlas', published in 1930

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