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Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilized in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand-year-long period, significant innovations and variations of homes existed, but house design generally ...
Lingnan garden (Jyutping: Ling 5 naam 5 jyun 4 lam 4; Traditional Chinese: 嶺南園林), or Cantonese garden, is the style of garden design native to the Lingnan region. [16] Geographically, Lingnan has very different climate from China's heartland (i.e., Zhongyuan), resulting in her developing a different style in designing gardens.
The building that faces north is known as the opposite house (倒座房, dàozuòfáng). Behind the main house, there would often be a separate backside building (后罩房, hòuzhàofáng), the only place where two-story buildings are allowed to be constructed for the traditional siheyuan.
The architecture of the mosques and gongbei tomb shrines of Chinese Muslims often combines traditional Chinese styles with Middle Eastern influences. The royal and nonroyal tombs found in the third through sixth centuries traced back to Han construction. Some tombs were considered two-chamber spaces, where the focal point was the central pagoda ...
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of ... late 19th and early 20th century)
From Colonial to modern, see pictures of architectural house styles in your area, across the country or around the world. Learn more about their history. The 25 Most Popular Architectural House Styles
Traditional Chinese visual design elements: their applicability in contemporary Chinese design (Master of Science in Design thesis). Arizona State University. Welch, Patricia Bjaaland (2012). Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery. Boston, US: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0689-5. OCLC 893707208. Williams, Charles (2006).
Cape Cod House Style. Named for the Massachusetts peninsula where they first proliferated, traditional Cape Cod homes are cozy, one to one-and-a-half story dwellings with a steeply pitched roof, a ...