People’s Places and Their

Spaces

Tipi• This is a tipi (or tepee)

from the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.

• Native Americans from the Plains have built tipis for hundreds of years.

• Tipis kept the cold out in the winter, and the sun and heat out in the summer.

• It could be packed up and moved when they needed to travel to find food.

Tipi Frames and Materials

• Tipis were made out of tall wooden poles and about twelve buffalo skins that were sewn together with sinew, or animal muscles cut into thin threads.

• They weighed over 550 pounds each, and it took at least three horses to carry it!

Log Cabin• This is the Laurel

Lodge, a Log Cabin.

• It is in Greenlawn, Suffolk County, New York.

• Log cabins have been around for hundreds of years.

• Some early log cabins might not have even had glass in the windows.

Log Cabin Joinings

• The joinings of the log cabin are where the logs crisscross together.

• Sometimes the cracks in the cabin walls were stuffed with mud to keep the cold out.

Hawaiian Grass House

• This building is made out of thatch, or grass.

• The grass is woven together and layered to keep the rain and weather out.

Cliff Dwellings

• A dwelling means a place where someone lives.• These houses were carved out of cliffs and made

out of rock and mud. • The Pueblo Indians of Colorado made these houses

in about the year 1200. That’s two-hundred years before Christopher Columbus discovered America!

Reginald DeKoven

House• This is a

townhouse built in the Gold Coast region of Chicago.

• It was built in 1889 and is made out of brick, wood, and stucco.

• It is an example of the Elizabethan Style.

DeKoven House Blue Prints

• This is the blueprint of the DeKoven House.

• A blueprint is the drawing an architect makes when the house is being planned.

Your turn to talk…Discuss with the class:

• Which house looked like it was the most

effective at keeping out rain?

• Which house looked like it was the most

effective at keeping out heat?

• Which building would you like to live in?

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

• How are these houses different? • How are these houses the same?

• Describe what you see in your own words. Use as much detail as possible.

Now it’s your turn to be the architect!

Think about what life might be one-hundred, or even one-thousand years in the future. What resources will people have? What will people build houses out of?

Design a house of the future. Pretend that you live there. Then write a first-person narrative about what it’s like to live in the house.