Folk Architecture The most visible aspect of the folk landscape

1. Folk Architecture • The most visible aspect of the folk landscape • Provide the unique character of each district or province

2. Built on mental images that change little from one generation to the next

3. Dwellings range from: massive houses of stone for permanency, to temporary brush thatch huts

4. Structures tend to blend nicely with the natural landscape

5. Santa Fe

6. Sedona

8. Folk architecture is traditional and functional using local materials: wood, brick, stone, skins

10. Climate and vegetation influence choice of construction materials

11. Longitude and distance from ocean is very important to climate: • Low latitudes are near the equator (0-30 degrees) • High latitudes are near the poles (60-90) • Middle latitudes are in between and where most people live. (30-60)

12. Tropics

13. Simple explanation of climate There are 5 basic climates • Polar: ice with little people so not significant to this class • Cold mid latitude: Very cold winters but pretty nice the rest of the year • Mild mid latitude: Temperatures are mild and it rarely freezes • Humid low latitude: it rains a lot and never freezes

14. Dry: Also called arid. Very little precipitation but it might have very cold winters. Not all deserts are hot but it rarely rains.

17. Could use different names

18. Simple explanation of biomes (large zones of a type of vegetation) • Near the equator there is tropical forest • Between north pole and the northern forest there is tundra (the soil is frozen most of the year but not always covered in snow) • in the colder mid latitudes there is forest (Russia, Canada, U.S. etc) • There are deserts with brush (rarely sand dunes, usually bushes with walking distance between them). • In between these two extremes grasslands are found (called savanna in the tropics where there is a dry season)

24. Folk housing building materials. Stone Construction • Most live in rocky, deforested lands • Mediterranean farmers • rural residents of northern India and southwestern China (Tibet) • Andean highlands

26. Earthen construction including Sun-dried (adobe) bricks • People in arid areas (deserts)

35. Sod construction

36. In pioneer times, the American Great Plains

37. in prairie (mid latitude grasslands) • Russian steppes

38. The first Europeans in Northern Canada

39. tundra areas

40. Canadian Barns were first made of sod TQ

42. This is a yurt Tent housing • Nomadic herders often live in portable tents made of skins or wool

43. Logs and sawn lumber (wood) • where timber is abundant • Middle and higher latitudes • The United States and Canada, log cabins and later frame houses • Folk houses of northern Europe • Eastern Australia • Central India

45. Half-timbering • wood frame with building material in between: such as clay or plaster. • middle and higher latitudes • Often deforested regions where wood is scarce • Central Europe • Central China

47. Poles, bamboo, leaves and bark • Traditional people living in tropical rain forests

49. Brush –thatched • People in the tropical grasslands (tropics with a dry season) • especially in Africa • Australia • Brazil

50. You’ll need to study this from the powerpoint at home