Log buildings and structures can be categorized as historic and modern. They are placed in opposition to wooden structures built using frameworks, according to
Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.
A diverse selection of their forms and styles with examples of architectural elements is discussed in the following articles:
*
Log cabin
A log cabin is a small log house, especially a minimally finished or less architecturally sophisticated structure. Log cabins have an ancient history in Europe, and in America are often associated with first-generation home building by settl ...
– a rustic dwelling
*
Log house – a style and method of building a quality house
*
Izba – a type of Russian peasant house, often of log construction. The
Cabin of Peter the Great is based on an izba.
*
Crib barn – a type of
barn built using log
cribs
* Some
barns are log barns such as the earliest of the
Pennsylvania barn types.
*
Blockhouse,
garrison house – some blockhouse or garrison house structures are tightly fitted timber or
stacked plank construction buildings to help withstand an attack.
*
Azekurazukuri – a Japanese style of building using triangular log construction
* Some
granaries (
raccard,
stabbur,
hórreo
An ''hórreo'' is a typical granary from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Asturias, Galicia (Spain), Galicia, where it might be called a Galician granary, and Northern Portugal), built in wood or stone, raised from the ground (to keep ro ...
) are of log or plank construction.
* The
Upper Lusatian house, also called Umgebinde in German, combines timber framing and log building
*
Wooden churches in Ukraine – many of the churches are recognized world heritage sites.
*
Corner post construction sometimes called
post-and-plank – this construction method blurs the line between timber framing and log construction with a frame infilled with logs or planks to form the walls.
*
Timber dam – timber crib dams are used to dam rivers.
*
Zakopane Style architecture – inspired by the regional art of
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
's highland region known as
Podhale uses log construction.
*
Hogan – this Native American dwelling evolved to be built of logs.
*
Chalet – Originally a dwelling-barn-house type farmhouse typically of timber construction (blockbau)
*
Black Forest house
The Black Forest houseDickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 154. . () is a byre-dwelling that is found mainly in the central and southern parts of the Black Forest in southweste ...
– traditional farmhouse type of timber construction
*
Octagonal churches in Norway are of log construction, some dating from the 17th century
*For Finnish and German language users see the special type of Finnish log church construction called
Tukipilarikirkko or
Stützpfeilerkirche
References
{{Woodworking
House types
House styles
Vernacular architecture
Carpentry