The document summarizes different types of dwellings and architectural styles used by ancient Pueblo people in the Southwest United States, including cliff dwellings, great houses, pit houses, and kivas. It notes design elements like perfectly cut windows and use of local materials like stone and wood. It also discusses how modern architecture still draws inspiration from Pueblo styles, with features like outdoor living and blending into the natural environment. Community layouts with shared spaces are also compared between ancient Pueblos and modern developments.

1. The Amazing Art
Of Living

2. Cliff Dwellings
Dark Canyon in Utah. This Anasazi construction style with a perfectly window design formed by flat rocks at
the bottom and top; and small flat rocks on the sides provide a magnificent view from the cliff to the
wilderness of the canyon.

3. Pueblo people created distinctive structures for living, worshiping, defense, storage, and
daily life. Modern world build similar construction homes designs, the incredible view of
this property may increase financial value but for pueblo people the value was spiritual a
step closer to the sky.

4. Impressive Mesa Verde Cliff Palace, almost invisible between the deep vegetation
and the white sand at the face of the cliff. An architectural achievement of the
southwestern Pueblo, that remind us our metropolitan cities in a smaller scale.

5. Great Houses – one type of dwelling for the ancient Pueblo, generally built on flat, sat
independent of cliffs surrounded by walls. Similar concept to our Gated Communities
today.

6. Pit Houses - Another type of dwelling most of the populations of the Southwest lived in,
carefully dug rectangular or circular depressions in the earth with branch and mud adobe walls
supported by log sized corner posts. This was a very creative architecture used, Pueblo people
considered columns to support the weight, digging to lay out the structure and shape. Most
architectures and developers use similar techniques before they start a construction project.

7. Cliff Dwellings – Another type of dwelling for the pueblo people, constructed at the
sides of the mesas and mountains of the Southwest, almost invisible to the eyesight
blend it between the canyons, perfect location for the proximity to water supply.

8. The kiva is a subterranean isolated dark room reached by ladder through an opening in the
roof. The symbolism of the hole refers to a man leaving the womb of the earth. These
sacred places were always separate from the living quarters and very limited space.

9. Community
Anazasi community build their homes with
close proximity to each other and share some
responsibilities. Modern communities are very
similar today, we interact with our neighbors,
children share school buildings, and in some
places a surrounding wall separate one
community from others.

10. Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, center of the Anazazi world, a
magnificent architectural project, with a half moon shape, surrounded by
green fields, blue skies and a peaceful sound of the wind.

11. Today numerous construction
plans are being design with a
similar idea established since
past eras, a dream for many to
be surrounded by nature.

12. Pueblo people are unique, as well as their architecture, design, pottery, and beliefs.
Modern times has maintained and respect Pueblo traditions . Right here the log s
on the ceiling, the pottery used for decoration, the textile used for design and
colors used give the visitors an aspect of Pueblo style construction.

13. Pueblo Revival Architecture
Rocks used for decorations on walls and flooring are a very common material used
today on home and office buildings.

14. Denny’s Den an impressive pueblo homes, made of mud, stone, or carved
into canyon walls, which are today called the Anasazi Ruins, a natural
beauty.

15. Today’s architecture has over change, adaptedto new civilizations
necessities and desires. The artist utilize technology to express their
imagination and develop amazingstructures withlimitless power.

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Discovery