The document discusses folk housing styles around the world and in the United States. It provides examples of how housing styles are influenced by available resources and social preferences in different regions. Traditional housing forms in the US developed from the traditions of early colonists but have since evolved. Modern housing styles in the US from 1945-1990 included variations of the modern style, while more recently neo-eclectic styles have become dominant as houses are influenced more by fashion trends than traditional vernacular designs. The document outlines many traditional and modern regional housing styles seen in the US.

1. Houses

2. Folk housing
Determined by available resources
and social preferences.
Different places use same material,
but orientation and form of the
houses are different. Examples,
Madagascar, Laos, Thailand.
(ALSO FengShui) for orientation
and China for form.

3. Home Locations in Southeast Asia
Fig. 4-11 (pg. 116): Houses and sleeping positions are oriented according to local
customs among the Lao in northern Laos (left) and the Yuan and Shan in
northern Thailand (right).

4. House Types in Western China
Fig. 4-9 (pg. 114): Four communities in western China all have
distinctive house types.

5. U.S. folk house forms
(Fellmann pgs. 222-225)
Early colonists built vernacular houses, (using local resources and
traditions to address local needs)based on tradition but without
formal plans
Several different Hearths developed
1. Northern or New England
a. French influence in Canada and other French settlements
b. Other influences from Dutch, Germans (Dutch doors)
2. Middle Atlantic
a. Ethnically diverse, developed the log cabin, four over four and I
house
3. Southern
a. Built from a mix of many influences, one type is the shotgun
house with roots in Africa
4. Interior and western
a. Sod, balloon frame, Spanish Adobe, and central-hall are
examples

6. Diffusion of House Types in U.S.
Fig. 4-9: Distinct house types originated in three main source areas in the U.S.
and then diffused into the interior as migrants moved west.

7. Diffusion of New England House Types
Fig. 4-10: Four main New England house types of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries diffused westward as settlers migrated.

8. Remember that modern houses are more
fashion, or what’s popular at the moment,
rather than vernacular (using the available
resources and traditions) And it’s not relocation
diffusion. We aren’t building our own houses,
generally. Mass contractors are building the
houses. We’re moving around interregionally
or intraregionallyand buying existing houses.
Houses are fashionable at certain time periods.
Here are the “Modern” house styles.

9. U.S. House Types, 1945-1990
Several variations of the “modern style” were dominant from the 1940s
into the 1970s. Since then, “neo-eclectic” styles have become the
dominant type of house construction in the U.S.

11. Traditional Cape Cod

12. Updated Cape Cod

13. Modern Cape Cod

14. Neo-Eclectic Cape Cod

16. Shakespeare’s House
English Tudor

17. Paul Revere’s house. Early Colonial Tudor

18. Modern Minimal American Tudor

20. Neo-Tudor Style

21. Neo-Tudor

22. Neo-Eclectic Tudor

24. Saltbox

25. John Adam’s house: Saltbox

26. John Adam’s Saltbox

27. John Adams’ House, Two Chimney

28. John Adams was the first
president to live in the
White House.

29. Modern Saltbox

30. Modern Saltbox

31. Neo-Eclectic
Saltbox

32. Front Gable and Wing or Irregular Massed

33. Front Gable and Wing or Irregular Massed

34. Front Gable and Wing or Irregular Massed

35. Modern Gable and Wing

36. Neo-Eclectic Gable and Wing

37. Two-Chimney

38. Two Chimney

39. Modern Two Chimney

40. Neo-Eclectic Two Chimney

41. Beehive House

42. Bungalow or
Minimal Traditional

44. Neo Bungalow

45. Ranch Style House

46. Ranch House

47. Ranch House

48. Modern Ranch

49. Neo-Eclectic Ranch

50. Split Level House

51. Split-Level

52. Split Level

53. Split Level

54. Split Level

55. Mansard Style

56. Mansard

57. Mansard

59. Neo Mansard

60. Neo Mansard

61. Mansard Mansion

62. Neo French Style

63. Neo French Style

64. Neo French Style

65. Neo French Style

66. Neo Colonial

67. Neo Colonial

68. Neo Colonial

69. Modern Contemporary

78. Others

79. Victorian

84. Bluffdale
“Up”
House

85. The End