Regional and Traditional Architecture of the Americas

Named regional and traditional building traditions this atlas records as belonging to North, Central or South America: United States vernacular forms such as the dogtrot house, the shotgun house, the sod house, the brownstone rowhouse, the western false-front commercial building and single- and double-pen log construction; Indigenous North American traditions such as the Navajo hogan, the Plains tipi and the longhouse; and Latin American traditions such as Argentina's Mar del Plata style, Mapuche ruka architecture and Taino architecture of the Caribbean. This subcategory's own report did not propose an Americas group, but this atlas's actual membership includes sixteen such entries, too large and too real a cluster to leave ungrouped or force into one of the report's other eight regions. Belongs here: any regional or traditional architecture entry this atlas records as originating anywhere in the Americas, plus two general architectural-concept articles (Traditional Architecture and Rustic Architecture) that name no other region and are noted here as this group's least regionally specific members. Does not belong here: a tradition originating outside the Americas, gathered under one of this subcategory's other eight regional groups.