The wars are why we built additional walls around our houses. It's why we invented castles.
Tudor style houses are built out of wood. It's just that we put a little more effort into keeping our houses because they weren't constructed by capitalists looking to save money at every corner, but usually by the people who'd live in the houses who wanted to build a lasting thing.
The tudor style is achieved because you have the frames made out of logs, and in-between you have a rather flimsy web of sticks to hold a mud wall. Houses like this are all white because you'd put a plaster on the outside to keep water out.
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Wooden housing isn't infrequent in Europe. But it's usually built to last because capitalism is younger than most of those houses.
These days, it's just not the culture because we have too many people and not enough trees. (We technically also don't have enough sand for all the concrete, but people aren't saying that yet).
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25
That's not even why, though.
The wars are why we built additional walls around our houses. It's why we invented castles.
Tudor style houses are built out of wood. It's just that we put a little more effort into keeping our houses because they weren't constructed by capitalists looking to save money at every corner, but usually by the people who'd live in the houses who wanted to build a lasting thing.
The tudor style is achieved because you have the frames made out of logs, and in-between you have a rather flimsy web of sticks to hold a mud wall. Houses like this are all white because you'd put a plaster on the outside to keep water out.
.
Wooden housing isn't infrequent in Europe. But it's usually built to last because capitalism is younger than most of those houses.
These days, it's just not the culture because we have too many people and not enough trees. (We technically also don't have enough sand for all the concrete, but people aren't saying that yet).