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Hokkien community (Chinese:唐人屋敷) doing business at Nagasaki in the second half of the 18th century. Swallowtail roof (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ìnn-bé-tsiah; Traditional Chinese: 燕尾脊, literally "swallowtail ridge") is a feature rarely (if at all) seen in non-Hoklo Han Chinese architecture. It is very common in Hokkien and Taiwan.
Cairene private house: They are traditional residential architecture in Cairo from late Mamluk era (1259–1517) and throughout the Ottoman era (1517–1805), where the idea of a private house was consistent. [citation needed] Rab’a: collective houses type for people with limited income or for traders and their families.
Bayt al-Razzaz (Arabic: بيت الرزاز) is a mansion in the heart of medieval Cairo, Egypt, constructed from the late 15th century through the late 18th century.The 190-room urban palace in the Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood of medieval Cairo was abandoned in the 1960s, but a restoration project rehabilitated the eastern building between 1977 and 2007.
Hassan Fathy (Egyptian Arabic: حسن فتحي; March 23, 1900 – November 30, 1989) was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to reestablish the use of adobe and traditional mud construction as opposed to western building designs, material configurations, and lay-outs.
The typical Chinese house contains a courtyard and, other than pagodas, does not often contain any structures higher than two stories. Researchers note similarity between some of the walled villages and some ancient fortifications in southern China, as seen in Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms tomb models unearthed in Guangzhou , Guangdong [ 1 ...
The use of urban planning in ancient Egypt is a matter of continuous debate. Because ancient sites usually survive only in fragments, and many ancient Egyptian cities have been continuously inhabited since their original forms, relatively little is actually understood about the general designs of Egyptian towns for any given period.
The architecture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, derived from the ancient Mediterranean civilizations such as at Knossos on Crete. They developed highly refined systems for proportions and style, using mathematics and geometry.
The qa'a (Arabic: قاعة, romanized: qāʿa) is a roofed reception room found in the domestic architecture of affluent residences of the Islamic world. It is the most common hall type in the medieval Islamic domestic architecture. The plan of a qa'a may be inspired by the four-iwan plan (cruciform) of religious buildings. They were used to ...