Something beneath, behind, or within which a person is protected from storms or other adverse conditions

A small, simple dwelling or shelter, esp. one made of natural materials

A primitive form of shelter consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over

A dwelling, esp. of prehistoric times, built on piles or other supports over the water of a lake

A circular, tent-like dwelling of the Mongol nomads of central Asia, consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement with a conical roof of poles, both covered by felt or animal skins

A tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door

An American Indian dwelling, usually of round or oval shape, formed of poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or animal skins

A temporary domed hut or red cedar and grass used by northeastern North American tribes

A Navaho Indian dwelling constructed usually of earth and logs and covered with mud and sod

A house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used esp. by settlers on the Great Plains when timber was scarce

A pole or post carved and painted with totemic figures, erected by Indians of the northwest coast of North America, esp. in front of their houses

An animal, plant, or natural object serving as an emblem of a family or clan by virtue of an ancestral relationship

A communal dwelling characteristic of many early cultures, esp. that of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 ft. or 30.5 m in length

Usually built on blocks of hard snow or ice in the shape of a dome, or when permanent, of sod, wood, or stone

An Eskimo house

A large, usually rectangular house constructed of timber planks, built and used by Indians and, less frequently, by Eskimos

A circular stone shelter of the Apulia region of southern Italy, roofed with conical constructions of corbeled dry masonry, usually whitewashed and painted with figures or symbols

A communal dwelling and defensive structure of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern US, built on adobe or stone, typically many-storied, and terraced, with entry through the flat roofs of the chambers by ladder

These structures were built on the desert floor, in valleys, or in the more easily defended cliff walls of mesas.

A natural flat-topped elevation with one or more cliff-like sides, common in arid and semi-arid parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico

A large underground or partly underground chamber in a Pueblo Indian village, used by the men for religious ceremonies or councils

A roof opening in an ancient Roman house, through which rainwater discharged into a cistern in the atrium beneath it

Having roofs sloping downward toward the compluvium

A cistern set in the atrium of an ancient Roman house to receive rainwater from the compluvium

An ancient Roman apartment building of flats for all but the wealthiest citizens, often having a ground floor occupied by shops and businesses

The main or central hall of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rainwater

A colonnade surrounding a building or a courtyard

An elevated bay or projected window with a raised sill serving as a desk for writing or reading, usually placed at a right angle to the tokonoma in the reception room of a shoin-zukuri style residence

A vertical hanging scroll containing either text or a painting, intended to be viewed on a wall and rolled when not in use

An extension of the floor on one or more sides of a Japanese-style house, usually facing a garden and serving as a passageway or sitting space

A post marking the front of the partition between the tokonama and the tana, sometimes of exquisite wood of particular grain and shape

Picture recess: a shallow, slightly raised alcove for the display of a kakemono or flower arrangement

A ceremonial style of Japanese residential architecture in the Kamakura period, deriving its name from the characteristic shoin or study-bay and marked by a hierarchical arrangement of public and private rooms

Reception room: the main room in a traditional Japanese house, used for receiving and entertaining guests

In Japanese residential architecture, a recess with built-in shelving, usually adjoining a tokonoma

One of a series of sliding translucent panels used in Japanese architecture between the exterior and the interior, or between two interior spaces, consisting of a light wooden framework covered on one side with rice paper; the lower section is occasionally filled by a thin wooden panel

A thick straw mat, covered with smooth, finely woven reeds and bound with plain or decorated bands of silk, cotton, or hemp, serving as a floor covering and a standard for designating room size in a traditional Japanese house

A linear unit for regulating column spacing in traditional Japanese construction