Noble - Traditional Buildings

Allen G. Noble is Distinguished Professor Emeritus atthe University of Akron, Ohio, where he was formerlyProfessor of Geography and Planning. Among his manybooks and articles are Wood, Brick and Stone: the NorthAmerican Settlement Landscape (two volumes, 1984) and(with Hubert G. H. Wilhelm) Barns of the Midwest (1995).

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Tent occupied by nomads in central Turkey

Interior of Turkish nomad tent

Scots-Irish and German log houses in early USA

Sketch of a tooth notch

The relationship between vernacular and academic dwelling characteristics

Rainbow-roofed Toda hut in the Nilgiri Hills, India

Floor plan of the Sadler house, northern Alabama

A koshel log housebarn from northern Russia

A German-Russian Mennonite housebarn built in Canada

Floor plan of a German-Russian Mennonite housebarn

Brick/half-timber Hallenhaus preserved at Cloppenburg, Germany

Cross-sections and floor plan of a Dutch Gulfhaus

Floor plans of a Bernese Middleland housebarn

Floor plan and diagram of an Irish housebarn from Donegal

Sketch, cross-section and floor plans of a Sherpa housebarn, high Himalaya

Sketch and floor plan of a dogtrot house

Sketch and floor plans of a German stack house, Missouri

Typical Polish add-on house, Buffalo, New York State

Chattel house raised on a foundation, Barbados

Poorly-located privy and well, near Belem, Brazil

Distribution of circular and rectangular dwellings, Cameroon

Plan of a Taiwanese courtyard house, emphasizing accessibility

Wooden gathering deck of Pacific Northwest Coast peoples

Sketch of a bohio, Caribbean

Differing amounts of headroom in southern American log cabins

A weavers house, Yorkshire, UK

Map of South Africa showing extent of traditional dwelling characteristics

Topographic map of the strassendorf of Chortitz, Manitoba

Topographic map showing farmhouse locations on kames (Normal East, USGS quadrangle)

Map of the Haida Indian village of Ninstints, Anthony Island, British Columbia

Variation in compass direction of Navajo hogan entrances

The importance of afternoon shade in adobe dwellings in southwestern USA

Distribution of mud-walled houses in Brittany

Constructing a pis wall in Australia

Tamper used in Peru to produce rammed-earth walls

Sketch of a sod house

Floor plan of a moss house

Isometric drawing of a Palestinian stone housebarn

Cobblestone building in northeastern North America

Graph showing the number of cobblestone houses built in New York State, by year

Examples of cobblestone walling

Slate-sided house near Brussels, Belgium

Tribal dwelling of light materials, Tamilnadu, India

Bamboo and thatch dwelling, Tanzania Village Museum, Dar-es-Salaam

Wattle construction, Cloppenburg Open-Air Museum, Germany

Vertical pole and mud daub construction, Senkiw, Manitoba

Examples of log corner notching

Pice-sur-pice method of log construction

Stovewood wall in a house on the Door Peninsula, Wisconsin

Conjectural isometric view of an early dwelling with buttress posts, together with the plan of post-holes as revealed by archeologists

Drawing of a typical pit saw

Layers of mud nogging in a light timber frame wall, near Columbia, Missouri

Range of eyebrow windows

Sketch, cross-section and floor plan of a Danubian subterranean house

World distribution of pit houses

Pacific Coast Indian dwellings

Sketch of a sod dugout

Cross-section of a typical miners dugout in Coober Pedy, Australia

The loess cave area in China

Typical vaulted facade of a loess cave

Interior of a loess cave

The Matmata cave area in southern Tunisia

Aerial view of open, sunken courtyards in the Matmata plateau

Troglodyte dwellings in Cappadocia, Turkey

Stilt houses above the lagoon at Ganvie, Benin

Stilt house in Johore, Malaysia

Chart of roof types

Most common Chinese roof types

Diagram of Zuni Indian roof construction

Roof trees on a cottage in Denmark

Slate-producing areas in the USA in 1891

A fish-scale tile roof in Holloko, Hungary

Norwegian traditional roof of three layers sawn boards, birch bark and sod

House with a hipped thatch roof in the Ganvie lagoon, Benin

Log building with ridge combing

Eroded wall of a cottage near Oseija, Croatia

Bell-cast eaves, which direct rain run-off away from walls

Roof of a Cape Cod cottage, which fits closely at both eave and gable

Types of early housebarns from the Scottish highlands

Drawing of a cyclone cellar, with an approaching tornado

Cotswold cottage rehabilitated with huge, inappropriately designed buttresses

Contrast between traditional and modern houses of the Aguaruna Indians in the Mayo valley, Peru

Window frame in new adobe construction, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

Stilt house in Brunei with concrete pillars replacing traditional wooden ones

Damage to a compound wall, Sian, China

Temporary earthquake shelters, Beijing, China

Montreal house with stone construction, gentle roof pitch and gable parapet for better fire defense

Front and back of the door to a Bantu grass hut

Notched doorway found in pueblos in southwest USA

Isometric view of Rocky Mountain cabin

A pronounced roof extension to reduce rain effects, Johore, Malayasia

Demerara window

Decorated window frame on a peasant cottage, Kostroma, Russia

Wooden window shields, Ile dOrleans, Quebec

Improvements in smoke control with the evolution of hearth and chimney in northwest Europe

External chimney attached to a log house in Tennessee

Plan of a black kitchen house in Furstenwald, Germany

A large summer kitchen with storage loft, near Findlay, Ohio

This summer kitchen is now too close to the rear of the house to reduce fire danger

Using the number and position of chimneys to classify I-houses

Wind catcher typical of Cairo, Egypt

Wind towers of the type found in Yazd, Iran

Palm-frond lamp shelter for Buddhist New Year, Kandy, Sri Lanka