Icelandic turf house
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Icelandic turf houses are timber structures with turf walls and turf as a cover for the roof. Turf houses have been constructed since Iceland was settled in the 9th century. Turf houses were the produ
Turf houses of the burstabær style in Glaumbær
Peat wall, Glaumbær, Iceland
Turf roof of a house in Glaumbær, Iceland
Turf house with a wooden gafli in Iceland.
Vernacular architecture
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Vernacular architecture is building done outside any academic tradition, and without the involvement of professional designers and architects. Vernacular architecture is not a particular architectural
Minangkabau architecture from West Sumatra, Indonesia, inspired by the shape of a buffalo horn
A traditional Kinnauri house, built in the Kath Kuni vernacular style, in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India
English vernacular building, 16th-century half-timbering and later buildings, in the village of Lavenham, Suffolk
A pair of single 1920s shotgun houses in the Campground Historic District of Mobile, Alabama