1. People’s Places and Their Spaces

2. 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.

3. 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!

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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!

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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?

11. COMPARE AND CONTRAST How are these houses different? How are these houses the same?

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

13. 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.