Houses

Folk housing

Determined by available resources and social preferences.

Different places use same material, but orientation and form of the houses are different. Examples, Madagascar, Laos, Thailand. (ALSO FengShui) for orientation and China for form.

Home Locations in Southeast Asia

Fig. 4-11 (pg. 116): Houses and sleeping positions are oriented according to local customs among the Lao in northern Laos (left) and the Yuan and Shan in northern Thailand (right).

House Types in Western China

Fig. 4-9 (pg. 114): Four communities in western China all have distinctive house types.

U.S. folk house forms(Fellmann pgs. 222-225)

Early colonists built vernacular houses, (using local resources and traditions to address local needs)based on tradition but without formal plans

Several different Hearths developed

1. Northern or New Englanda. French influence in Canada and other French settlements

b. Other influences from Dutch, Germans (Dutch doors)

2. Middle Atlantica. Ethnically diverse, developed the log cabin, four over four and I

house

3. Southerna. Built from a mix of many influences, one type is the shotgun

house with roots in Africa

4. Interior and westerna. Sod, balloon frame, Spanish Adobe, and central-hall are

examples

Diffusion of House Types in U.S.

Fig. 4-9: Distinct house types originated in three main source areas in the U.S. and then diffused into the interior as migrants moved west.

Diffusion of New England House Types

Fig. 4-10: Four main New England house types of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries diffused westward as settlers migrated.

Remember that modern houses are morefashion, or what’s popular at the moment, rather than vernacular (using the availableresources and traditions) And it’s not relocation diffusion. We aren’t building our own houses, generally. Mass contractors are building the houses. We’re moving around interregionallyor intraregionallyand buying existing houses.Houses are fashionable at certain time periods. Here are the “Modern” house styles.

U.S. House Types, 1945-1990

Several variations of the “modern style” were dominant from the 1940s

into the 1970s. Since then, “neo-eclectic” styles have become the

dominant type of house construction in the U.S.

Traditional Cape Cod

Updated Cape Cod

Modern Cape Cod

Neo-Eclectic Cape Cod

Shakespeare’s HouseEnglish Tudor

Paul Revere’s house. Early Colonial Tudor

Modern Minimal American Tudor

Neo-Tudor Style

Neo-Tudor

Neo-Eclectic Tudor

Saltbox

John Adam’s house: Saltbox

John Adam’s Saltbox

John Adams’ House, Two Chimney

John Adams was the first president to live in the

White House.

Modern Saltbox

Modern Saltbox

Neo-Eclectic Saltbox

Front Gable and Wing or Irregular Massed

Front Gable and Wing or Irregular Massed

Front Gable and Wing or Irregular Massed

Modern Gable and Wing

Neo-Eclectic Gable and Wing

Two-Chimney

Two Chimney

Modern Two Chimney

Neo-Eclectic Two Chimney

Beehive House

Bungalow orMinimal Traditional

Neo Bungalow

Ranch Style House

Ranch House

Ranch House

Modern Ranch

Neo-Eclectic Ranch

Split Level House

Split-Level

Split Level

Split Level

Split Level

Mansard Style

Mansard

Mansard

Neo Mansard

Neo Mansard

Mansard Mansion

Neo French Style

Neo French Style

Neo French Style

Neo French Style

Neo Colonial

Neo Colonial

Neo Colonial

Modern Contemporary

Others

Victorian

Bluffdale“Up”

House

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