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  2. Traditional Chinese house architecture - Wikipedia

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    Model of a classic Chinese late imperial era home unit. Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilized in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand-year-long period, significant innovations and ...

  3. Minka - Wikipedia

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    Minka (Japanese: 民家, lit. "folk houses") are vernacular houses constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society , Minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non- samurai castes ). [ 1 ]

  4. Chinese architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese house was a cosmic space. The house was designed as a shelter to foil evil influences by channeling cosmic energies by respecting feng shui. Depending on the season, astral cycle, landscape, and the house's design, orientation, and architectural details, some amount of energy would be produced.

  5. Housing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    A model of traditional house in Kyoto A traditional house in Okinawa Prefecture has the red tile roof characteristic of the region. Historically, commoners typically lived either in free-standing houses, now known as minka, or, predominantly in cities, in machiya (町屋) or row-houses called nagaya (長屋). Examples are still visible in Kyoto.

  6. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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    2 Asian. 3 South American. 4 Mediterranean, Spanish, Italian. ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic ...

  7. Shinden-zukuri - Wikipedia

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    Its features include an open structure with few walls that can be opened and closed with doors, shitomi and sudare, a structure in which people take off their shoes and enter the house on stilts, sitting or sleeping directly on tatami mats without using chairs or beds, a roof made of laminated hinoki (Japanese cypress) bark instead of ceramic ...

  8. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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    The "Bricktown" of Ginza served as a model for many other modernization schemes in Japanese cities. Rokumeikan in 1883–1900 One of the prime examples of early western architecture was the Rokumeikan , a large two-story building in Tokyo, completed in 1883, which was to become a controversial symbol of Westernisation in the Meiji period .

  9. Terrace House: Opening New Doors - Wikipedia

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    Terrace House: Opening New Doors (Japanese: テラスハウス オープニング ニュー ドアーズ, Hepburn: Terasu Hausu Ōpuningu Nyū Doāzu) is a Japanese reality television series in the Terrace House franchise set in Karuizawa of the Nagano prefecture in Japan.