Houses in the World

This is part of my ongoing project, "Houses in the World," which collects and archives various types of urban houses in history across continents and their ever-changing relationships with natural and built environments.
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Chinese Shophouse (Incheon): A treaty-port influence
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Shophouse (Ho Chi Minh City): a deceptive front for espionage
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Unité d'habitation (Marseille): A city within a city
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Condominium (Okinawa): Concrete brutalism in a locality prone to typhoons
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Canal House (Amsterdam)
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Rowhouse (Ho Chi Minh City): Labor as collective identity
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Casa Milà (Barcelona): A Victorian oddity
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Lilong House (Shanghai): Modern urban housing
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Bungalow (Kuala Lumpur): A localized form
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Shophouse (Singapore): Rediscovered heritage
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Machiya (Nagasaki): An urban housing type
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Canal House (Venice): Water as infrastructure
​​All photographs are by Sujin Eom unless otherwise stated.