The Textbook of Architecture

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Bungalow

Also called bungalows

A low house of one storey, or one and a half, with a broad roof and usually a veranda or porch; from the Hindi bangla, a house in the Bengal manner, by way of British India, and the commonest American house of the early twentieth century.

A house by its style’s rules Open in Models ↗

See also: Porch

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The House in England and America.

A feature of Craftsman architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Brise-soleil · Broderie · Broken pediment · Brutalism · Buttery · Buttress · Cai · Callimachus