House types
Terraced house
In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing…
Geodesic dome
A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The triangular elements of the dome…
Moroccan riad
A riad is a traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden or courtyard.Generally from one to four storeys…
Liwan
Liwan (Arabic: ليوان, from Persian eyvān) is a word used since ancient times into the present to refer to a…
I-house
The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was…
Dogtrot house
The dogtrot, also known as a breezeway house, dog-run, or possum-trot, is a style of house that was common throughout…
Creole architecture
Creole cottage is a term loosely used to refer to a type of vernacular architecture indigenous to the Gulf Coast…
Log cabin
A log cabin is a dwelling constructed of logs, especially a less finished or architecturally sophisticated structure. Log cabins have…
Central-passage house
The central-passage house, also known variously as center-hall house, hall-passage-parlor house, Williamsburg cottage, and Tidewater-type cottage, was a vernacular, or…
Hall and parlor house
A hall and parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early modern to 19th century England, as…
Hall house
The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland,…
California bungalow
California bungalow is a style of residential architecture that was popular across the United States, and to varying extents elsewhere,…
List of house types
This is a list of house types. Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division…
Strawberry box houses
Strawberry box houses or Strawberry-box bungalow was a style of homes built during World War II and into the 1950s…
Noddy housing
Noddy housing (sometimes called "Noddy Box Housing" or "Shoddy Noddy Boxes") is commercially built housing of low build quality or…