Houses

Rondavel (South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana)

1701 BCE

An African-style hut known in literature as cone on cylinder or cone on drum, but popularly referred to simply as rondavel. It has largely undergone Westernization in its recent developments.

Aragorn Castle, Italy

474 BCE

is a medieval castle next to Ischia, at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, Italy. The castle stands on a volcanic rocky islet that connects to the larger island of Ischia by a causeway

Insula

250 BCE

An insula housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome, including ordinary people of lower- or middle-class status (the plebs) and all but the wealthiest from the upper-middle class. The term was also used to mean a city block.