wooden architecture
The oldest examples of wooden structures are the huts built by primitive peoples with curved and interwoven branches and wattle, straw, or mud in-fills. In northern regions, where there were many forests, some of the most ancient types of house were built in wood, four-sided, using roughly hewn tree trunks, which were either fastened or carpentered together at the four corners. Chinese wooded architecture with its grace of line and high standard of technical achievement is in a class of its own. (Pothorn, 1979)