What types of architecture reflect their climate?
That is a really cool question. Most of the examples I can think of off the top of my head come from peoples that have lived in a region for hundreds or thousands of years. The Inuit build homes out of snow, nothing to explain there. In the southwest some native americans built their homes out of dried mud bricks called adobe. Makes sense, since the climate of the southwest is hot and dry: no trees to harvest wood from, and rain won’t turn the bricks back into mud. Both of these examples show use of the most plentiful raw material in the region. The dwellings of the native americans of the plains indirectly reflect the climate and geography. The chief virtue of the teepee is the ease and speed with which it can be assembled and taken apart. This was important as indians like the Sioux were hunters who had to follow the buffalo herds which grazed on the grasslands, which existed because there was not enough rain to cause forests to grow, but too much rain for there to be desert.
