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Ranch (also known as American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout. The style fused modernist ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period of wide open ...
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Tiny homes in Detroit. Semi-mobile tiny house in New Zealand. Tiny house with cottage style (10x24 ft) The tiny-house movement is an architectural and social movement promoting the reduction and simplification of living spaces. [1][2][3] Tiny homes have been promoted as offering lower-cost and sometimes eco-friendly features within the housing ...
Temporary structures – Quonset hut, Nissen hut, prefabricated home. Underground – Underground living, rock-cut architecture, monolithic church, pit-house. Modern low-energy systems – Straw-bale construction, earthbag construction, rice-hull bagwall construction, earthship, earth house. Various styles – Longhouse.
Timeline of architectural styles. 6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 • 1900–Present. Architectural style • Architecture timeline. This timeline shows the periods of various architectural styles in a graphical fashion.
Architecture can mean: A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures. [8] The art and science of designing buildings and (some) nonbuilding structures. [8] The style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures. [8] A unifying or coherent form or structure.
Bob Masters was an early pioneer of houses built of rigid insulation. Before conceiving the Xanadu House concept, Masters designed and created inflatable balloons to be used in the construction of houses. [1] He was inspired by architect Stan Nord Connolly's Kesinger House in Denver, Colorado, one of the earliest homes built from insulation ...
A terrace, terraced house (UK), or townhouse (US) [ a ] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row houses or row homes. Terrace housing can be found worldwide, though it is quite common in Europe ...