Folk architecture

    
Let's show folk architecture from different countries.


In Romania traditional village architecture vanished in percent of 95% due to the perisable materials. Exception are the villages in the Saxon area were the houses, built in stone and brick resisted from 18-19th centuries.

In other regions there are exemplaries which can be found in some villages but most of the villages are of recent (last decades) houses.


There is a number of ~10 open air museums of traditional architecture. The biggest and most interesting are:

-Bucharest: Village Museum, the oldest (1936)

-Sibiu (Dumbrava Sibiului, near Sibiu city): Museum of Traditional Popular Civilisation, the biggest and most beautiful, hiddedn in a large forest arround a lake. The website page is interesting, you can virtualy visit the museum by panoraming the image and clicking on the arrows which appear on the image.

-Cluj-Napoca: Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania

-Timisoara: Banat Village Museum

-Golesti (Arges county): The Museum of Fruit Growing and Viticulture

-R�mnicu V�lcea (Bujoreni village, near R�mnicu V�lcea): The Village Museum of the V�lcea County

-Sighetul Marmatiei: The Ethnographic Museum of Maramures located in this city which was the medieval capital of Maramures Land

-T�rgu Jiu (Curtisoara village, near T�rgu Jiu): Gorj Folk Architecture Museum

-Negresti (Satu Mare county): Oas Land Village Museum. The museum of this small but extraordinary historical region (not bigger than the today Bucharest)


At this link drawings of house types in different regions:
http://www.ziduldacic.go.ro/arhitectura/case.htm

Addresses of all Ethnographic museums of Romania at this address: http://www.itcnet.ro/folk_festival/muzee.htm



And now some images of folk architecture in original locations:


Gorj county (the house of birth of Constantin Br�ncusi in Hobita village)





Maramures county




Bucovina (Suceava county)





Nasaud Land (Bistrita Nasaud county) the village Feldru










Edited by Menumorut - 05-Dec-2006 at 08:00

Edited by Hellios - 06-Dec-2006 at 01:11

Very impressive Patrinos.  Thanks.

Typical timber-framed house of the pre-industrial era

Because land was becoming increasingly scarce, traditional English houses could be 3 or more storeys high. Cities that were spared the German bombs have many buildings of this type

Bulgarian Renaissance house, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.

Bulgarian Renaissance house, Plovdiv, Bulgaria