Architecture / dwelling
Savoirs de construction, habitat, materiaux locaux et relation maison-territoire.
- Architecture vernaculaire.
- Habitat climatique.
- Transmission des techniques.
Data classification
Ressources liees a Architecture / habiter
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A boy’s life in Sarawak: longhouse, rubber trees and the Rajang River (1970 film)
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1970 film by Dutch filmmaker Michael Rogge along the Rajang River, Sarawak: an Iban boy’s daily life — canoe travel, longhouse living, mat and rattan weaving, tattooed elders, rice planting, rubber tapping and drying, and bartering rubber sheets at the river trading post.
- Territory
- Asia / Fleuve Rajang, région de Kapit, Sarawak, Malaisie (Bornéo)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Ibans (Dayaks de la mer)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Michael Rogge (film personnel, 1970)
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3013xK7Nc
- Date added
- 04/09/2026
Original creator
Michael Rogge (1929-2024), cinéaste-archiviste néerlandais : plus de 1 150 films personnels tournés en Asie et dans le Pacifique depuis les années 1940, publiés sur sa chaîne YouTube (chaîne déjà référencée sur le site pour « Les plongeuses ama »).
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Samoa 1949: fale builders, copra, taro and the stone oven (archive film)
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Shot in 1949 by the NZ National Film Unit, this film shows Samoan daily life: basket weaving, copra making, church building led by a master builder carrying every plan in his head, the kava ceremony, taro and breadfruit crops, umu stone-oven cooking and the roof craftsmanship of fale builder guilds. (Archives New Zealand.)
- Territory
- Oceania / Samoa occidentales (Upolu, région d’Apia et villages)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Samoans
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- New Zealand National Film Unit, 1949 (réal. Stanhope Andrews) — fonds Archives New Zealand
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire), chants samoans
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_kUJQq_qgI
- Date added
- 03/09/2026
Original creator
Archives New Zealand : institution nationale d’archives de Nouvelle-Zélande, qui conserve et met en ligne notamment les films du National Film Unit.
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Kano, earthen city of the Hausa: caravans, walls and mud-plastering (archive footage, 1949)
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Silent 1949 British Pathé rushes from the old city of Kano, Nigeria: camel caravans entering the earthen walls, masons hand-plastering mud façades, market streets, groundnut pyramids and the Emir's court. A rare record of Sahelian earthen architecture.
- Territory
- Africa / Kano, nord du Nigéria (vieille ville)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Haoussa
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (sans commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4zok1NjNBU
- Date added
- 01/09/2026
Original creator
Maison d'archives d'actualités cinématographiques britanniques (1896-1976). British Pathé publie ses fonds numérisés sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle.
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Kabylia 1959: villages, market and everyday gestures (INA archives)
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A 1959 French TV report (RTF, INA archives) on Kabylia and its hilltop villages around Tizi Ouzou: open-air market, goat herding, women fetching water, building a house in the traditional way, the village lookout, schoolgirls’ games and traditional dance. A period document, with a commentary that reflects its colonial time.
- Territory
- Africa / Tizi Ouzou et villages de Grande Kabylie, Algérie
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Kabyles (Berbères / Amazighs)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- RTF, « Voyage sans passeport » (1959) — fonds INA
- Language and subtitles
- Français (commentaire d’époque)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjPRPcHkxg
- Date added
- 31/08/2026
Original creator
Ina Voyages est une chaîne officielle de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), qui conserve et diffuse les archives de la radio-télévision française. Ce reportage provient de l’émission « Voyage sans passeport » diffusée le 22 août 1959.
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Raising the chum: a Nenets family sets up its reindeer-skin tent in the tundra
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Observational film with no commentary, shot in winter with a Nenets family, the last great reindeer herders of the Siberian North. After the reindeer-drawn sledge convoy arrives, every step of raising the chum is shown in order: laying the wooden floor and stove on the snow, lifting the poles up to the crown, hoisting the reindeer-skin covers, packing snow against the base to cut the wind. Life then settles in: family tea inside the tent, and a blizzard day spent splitting firewood and frozen meat with an axe (source: SLICE/ZED notes).
- Territory
- Arctic / Toundra du Grand Nord sibérien, district autonome de Iamalo-Nénétsie (Russie) — lieu exact non précisé
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Nenets (éleveurs de rennes nomades)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Production ZED (France), images Benoît Ségur et Philippe Pothon — diffusé par la chaîne officielle SLICE
- Language and subtitles
- Sans commentaire (échanges en nenets/russe non traduits)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGYonoVALUU
- Date added
- 30/08/2026
Original creator
SLICE : chaîne YouTube officielle diffusant des extraits de documentaires professionnels ; ZED : société de production documentaire française.
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Desert Bedouin: camp, black tents, bread and coffee (1930s colour film)
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Rare 1930s colour footage of Bedouin daily life, probably in Jordan or Arabia: a camel patrol, the caravan on the move, women pitching the black goat-hair tents and baking bread, men roasting and serving coffee. Source: official Huntley Film Archives channel (film no. 1093679).
- Territory
- Asia / Désert de Jordanie ou d’Arabie (lieu exact incertain)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Bédouins (tribus nomades chamelières)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Huntley Film Archives (fonds d’archives britannique, film n° 1093679)
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (musique d’accompagnement ajoutée)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKhfwcsforM
- Date added
- 29/08/2026
Original creator
Huntley Film Archives est un fonds d’archives britannique indépendant regroupant des dizaines de milliers de films documentaires tournés des années 1890 aux années 2020, mis en ligne à des fins éducatives.
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Ulaanbaatar and life in the ger: Mongolia in 1968 (British Pathé archives)
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Archival rushes filmed in 1968 in Ulaanbaatar. Ger districts with fenced yards, Buddhist temples, a folk dance at the National Theatre, and the interior of a ger where a woman in traditional dress cooks on the central stove. A rare record of the ger as a living habitat in the heart of the capital.
- Territory
- Asia / Oulan-Bator, Mongolie
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Mongols (Khalkha)
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- British Pathé (fonds d’archives, matériel non monté « Mongolia Today », 1968)
- Language and subtitles
- Muet / sans commentaire monté (rushes) — à confirmer au visionnage
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgEExJg-Kw
- Date added
- 18/08/2026
Original creator
British Pathé, l’une des plus anciennes maisons d’actualités filmées (1896-1976), a mis en ligne ses 85 000 films sur sa chaîne YouTube officielle. Fonds de référence pour les images d’archives du XXe siècle.
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A Yagua village on the banks of the Amazon (Smithsonian archives, ca. 1974)
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Silent archival clip (ca. 1974) from the Smithsonian's Human Studies Film Archives showing a Yagua village along the Amazon River near Iquitos, Peru: riverside dwellings and daily life.
- Territory
- South America / Rive de l'Amazone, région d'Iquitos, Loreto, Pérou
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Yagua
- Video nature
- Excerpt
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution (fonds Hal et Halla Linker)
- Language and subtitles
- muet (sans paroles)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxUd-i431Hw
- Date added
- 12/08/2026
Original creator
Archives du film en sciences humaines de la Smithsonian Institution ; images tournées par Hal et Halla Linker pour la série TV « Three Passports to Adventure » (années 1970).
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The Bandiagara Escarpment: Dogon Dwellings from the Sky (INA collection, 2007)
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These images from the INA collection (aerial rushes shot on 1 November 2007 for the film “Home”) fly over the Bandiagara Escarpment in Dogon country (Mali), a UNESCO World Heritage site. The cliff is dotted with caves where the Tellem, the Dogon's predecessors, built granaries, tombs and places of worship; today the Dogon use these structures as burial sites and build their villages, houses and millet granaries at the foot of the cliff. An exceptional document on a unique vertical habitat. (Source: INA.)
- Territory
- Africa / Falaise de Bandiagara, pays dogon, région de Mopti, Mali (plaine du Séno-Gondo)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Dogon (et Tellem, leurs prédécesseurs dans les grottes de la falaise)
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 15 a 30 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Rushes du film « Home » (2007) conservés et diffusés par l'INA — chaîne YouTube officielle Ina Voyages
- Language and subtitles
- Rushes sans commentaire (images aériennes)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5mc2MdcYEg
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) conserve et valorise les archives audiovisuelles françaises ; sa chaîne officielle Ina Voyages diffuse des documents et rushes de voyage issus de ses fonds.
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The Guna of the San Blas Islands: Island Villages, Sail and Molas (Smithsonian archives, 1958)
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This short 1958 archival clip, preserved at the Smithsonian's Human Studies Film Archives, shows Guna (Kuna) life in the San Blas archipelago (Guna Yala, Panama): villages on coral islands, a traditional sailing canoe, a freshwater well, and the molas — the appliqué textiles emblematic of Guna women's dress — and adornments. A filmed glimpse of Guna island living and material culture nearly 70 years ago. (Source: Smithsonian HSFA.)
- Territory
- Central America / Archipel de San Blas, comarque de Guna Yala, Panama (repère indicatif)
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Guna (Kuna), peuple autochtone de Guna Yala
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 0 a 5 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Extrait du travelogue « Rainbow Lands of Central America » de Thayer Soule (1958), conservé aux Human Studies Film Archives de la Smithsonian Institution ; diffusé par la chaîne YouTube officielle HSFAFilmClips
- Language and subtitles
- Film muet (extrait sans commentaire ; description en anglais)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqRrdIBYHfQ
- Date added
- 11/08/2026
Original creator
Les Human Studies Film Archives de la Smithsonian Institution conservent plus de 8 millions de pieds de films ethnographiques ; leur chaîne YouTube officielle diffuse des extraits documentés des collections.
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How to Build an Igloo: the snow architecture of the Inuit
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This classic National Film Board of Canada short (1949) shows how to build an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada's Far North choose the site, cut and lay the snow blocks, then shape the entrance: the shelter is completed in an hour and a half. The narration explains how the warmth inside and the wind outside cement the blocks together. As the short winter day draws to a close, the two builders lay out their caribou skins inside, assured of a comfortable night in the heart of the Arctic cold.
- Territory
- Arctic / Grand Nord canadien (actuel Nunavut), Canada
- Skill
- Architecture / dwelling
- Community
- Inuit
- Video nature
- Documentary
- Duration
- 5 a 15 min
- Rights
- Usage restreint
- Direct source
- No
- Relayed information
- No
- Type
- Video
- Contributor name
- Chris Nahon
- Who produced the video?
- Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB), réalisation Douglas Wilkinson, 1949
- Language and subtitles
- Anglais (commentaire)
- Lien externe (URL)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3pd-wxNEKQ
- Date added
- 01/08/2026
Original creator
L’Office national du film du Canada (ONF / NFB) est le producteur public canadien de documentaires et d’animations, fondé en 1939. Ce film de 1949 a été réalisé par Douglas Wilkinson dans le Grand Nord canadien.