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2. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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   The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.

3. Cape Cod (house) - Wikipedia

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   Cape Cod (house) A Cape Cod house is a low, broad, single or double-story frame building with a moderately-steep-pitched gabled roof, a large central chimney, and very little ornamentation. Originating in New England in the 17th century, the simple symmetrical design was constructed of local materials to withstand the stormy weather of Cape Cod.

4. Hanok - Wikipedia

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   In order to allow good wind circulation, they have open, wooden floor living areas and many windows. The most common shape for hanok in the central region is an L-shaped layout, an architectural mixture of the shapes in the northern and the southern regions. Hanok in the cold northern region have square layouts that block the wind flow. They do ...

5. Traditional Persian residential architecture - Wikipedia

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   Being farmers mean great calls. have hot summers, and cold, dry winters. Iran’s traditional architecture is designed in proportion to its climatic conditions.The continued design and existence of traditional homes amidst the preponderance of mid-rise apartments in Iran's ongoing modernisation projects is testament to a strong connection and identification with Persian architectural heritage.

6. Vastu shastra - Wikipedia

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   Vastu Shastra are the textual part of Vastu Vidya – the broader knowledge about architecture and design theories from ancient India. [8] Vastu Vidya is a collection of ideas and concepts, with or without the support of layout diagrams, that are not rigid. Rather, these ideas and concepts are models for the organisation of space and form ...

7. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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   A model of traditional house in Kyoto A traditional house in Okinawa Prefecture has the red tile roof characteristic of the region. Historically, commoners typically lived either in free-standing houses, now known as minka, or, predominantly in cities, in machiya (町屋) or row-houses called nagaya (長屋). Examples are still visible in Kyoto.