Global Design and Construction Around The World Copyright © 2015 Texas Education Agency, 2015. All...

Copyright © 2015 Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

Global Design and Construction Around The World


Great design can transcend geographical boundaries.

• Journal about a place you have traveled. Describe the buildings and architecture that you were able to see. Did you notice any cultural influences on the designs. Do you know the design styles?


Construction and Architecture Around the

World


Earth House

• Architectural style is characterized by the use of natural terrain to help form the walls of a house.


Rondavel

• Traditional African-style house that is usually round in shape and traditionally made with materials that can be locally obtained in raw form.


Shell House

• It is the most original house in Mexico.


Rumah Gadang

• Rumah gadang, which means "big house," are the traditional homes of the Minangkabau in Indonesia.


Toda Hut

• The hut of a Toda Tribe of Nilgiris, India is noted for the decoration of the front wall and the very small door.


Korowai Tree House

• This unique house is home to the Korowai tribe (also called the Kolufo).


Trulli House

• Distinguished by conical stone roofs, they are traditional in the southeastern region of Apulia, Italy.


Palloza

• A palloza is a traditional thatched house found in Galicia, Spain.


Icelandic Farmhouse

• Earth sheltering is popular in modern times among advocates of passive solar and sustainable architecture.


Crannog

• Crannogs are known as artificial or modified natural islands.


Mardin Stone Houses Turkey

• Arab-style architecture has a strategic position on rocky mountains overlooking the plains of northern Syria.


Tongkonan

• These distinctive wooden houses have curved roofs with tall gable ends that make them look likes boats.


House of Marsh Arabs: Iraq

• They are often constructed on floating platforms woven from tips of reeds still growing up out of the swamp.

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