Native american architecture

Excitement is building about the fact that Indigenous architect Douglas Cardinal’s project “UNCEDED” will be in the spotlight at the next Venice Biennale.

Design and heritage You are a member of one of the midwestern nations of Native Americans. Your ancestors had no permanent architecture because they were nomadic hunter-gatherers (see photo below). But now you live on a reservation in South Dakota, or near the Twin Cities in Minnesota. You and your relatives want to establish a cultural …

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Native American Homes

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Adobe houses are Native American house complexes used by the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Adobe pueblos are multi-story houses made of adobe (clay & straw baked into hard bricks) or of large stones cemented together with adobe. Each adobe unit is home to one family, like a modern apartment. The whole structure, which can contain dozens of units, is often home to an entire extended clan. These are good homes to build in a warm, dry climate where adobe can be easily mixed and dried.

An ancient city near Collinsville, Illinois, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico.