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
Timber framing
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Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secure
Vernacular architecture
…Log houses require plentiful access to long, straight, softwood and are thus most common in taiga or temperate coniferous forest biomes Timber framing is associated with temperate broadleaf forests that provide hardwoods Bamboo construction is common in warm and moist tropical and warm temperate…
The market square of Dornstetten, Germany, showing an ensemble of half-timbered buildings
Rue du Gros-Horloge in Rouen, France, a city renowned for its half-timbered buildings
Lemgo, Germany, downtown
Strasbourg, sculptures on the timber framing of a half-timbered house.