Summarize of Louisiana house types article of Fred B. Kniffen (1936)

1. Louisiana House Types
Fred B. Kniffen - 1936
W.M.S.S.Dias
mihirdias@gmail.com
Department of Geography
University of Peradeniya

2. • Kniffen studied ‘housing structure’ in
Louisiana, USA.
• He considered housing elements such as
house plan, roof, chimney, porches,
appendages, paint, windows, height, etc.
• Traversed all houses
visible to the road
along these routes.

3. • Mainly focused on,
– Those with side- ward-facing gables
– Those whose gables face the front
– Those having pyramidal roofs
– Those with shed roofs
• And identified 09 main types,
– Built-in Porch

4. – Attached Porch
– Porchless
– Open Passage

5. – Mid-West
– Shotgun
– Bungalow

6. – Trapper
– Oysterman

7. • This study represented the Carl O.Sauer’s
‘Morphological approach to landscape’ (1925)
• Culture – Agent
• Nature – Medium
• Cultural Landscape – Result
Medium
Agent
Result

8. As bellow Kniffen identified the
relationship between natural factors and
housing structures and he map down
those findings.
In that you can directly observe houses are
structured (designed) according to the
natural features in the area.

9. Natural Landscape Cultural Landscape

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13. Natural Landscape Cultural Landscape

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