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Reconstruction of a Mesolithic house in Ireland, Irish National Heritage Park. Architectural advances are an important part of the Neolithic period (10,000-2000 BC), during which some of the major innovations of human history occurred. The domestication of plants and animals, for example, led to both new economics and a new relationship between ...
This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including structural engineering , landscape architecture , and city planning .
The history of construction traces the changes in building tools, methods, techniques and systems used in the field of construction. It explains the evolution of how humans created shelter and other structures that comprises the entire built environment.
These houses may simply be called plank houses. Some building historians prefer the term plank-on-frame. Plank-frame houses are known from the 17th century with concentrations in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The carpentry consists of a timber frame with vertical planks extending from sill ...
Timber, especially white and red cedar, made for a great building resource and was readily abundant for the settlers in the English colonies, so naturally many houses were made of wood. [15] As for decorative elements, as said before most colonial houses were built plainly and therefore most colonial house designs led to a very simple outcome.
The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – database of over 7,000 houses; Hudson's Historic Houses and Gardens – UK guidebook of over 2,000 houses open to the public; Lost Heritage – A Memorial to the Lost Country Houses of England – list of over 1,700 houses
These basic houses featured double-pitched hipped roofs and were surrounded by porches (galleries) to handle the hot summer climate. By 1770, the basic French Colonial house form evolved into the briquette-entre-poteaux (small bricks between posts) style familiar in the historic areas of New Orleans and other areas. These homes featured double ...