why do we build rectangular houses and not round houses?

Question

I mean houses in Europe and America have 4 corners (or more) whereas in Africa Natives build round houses (also in Asia afaik).
Do they have any advantages or disadvantages? Or is one solution cheaper, …?

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Answer 1

Square shapes are easier to manufacture, construct, and way more space efficient.

Now not all natives built round houses, your view is just biased on this whole “mudhut” thinking in western media.

Here is a picture of Göbekli Tepe from about 10.000 years ago. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_archaeological_site_of_G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe_-_main_excavation_area.png](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_archaeological_site_of_G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe_-_main_excavation_area.png)

Here is an aerial shot of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil. [https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge/image_1878e-Amazonian-tribe.jpg](https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge/image_1878e-Amazonian-tribe.jpg)

Ditto: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%8Dndios_isolados_no_Acre_12.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%8Dndios_isolados_no_Acre_12.jpg)

Here is an article about Korowai tribe that live in treehouses (Common in Papua New Guinea) [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4799012/The-secretive-Korowai-tribe-live-tree-houses.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4799012/The-secretive-Korowai-tribe-live-tree-houses.html)

Here is Bhirrana [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bhirrana_excavation.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bhirrana_excavation.jpg) from about 9000 years ago.

Humans around the world have built all sorts of dwellings. And this idea of round mudhuts being works of primitive man, is just outright western imperialist white supermacy. Fact is that humans are very practical and use the construction methods most efficient for them.

The reason *the stereotypical mud hut* is round because it is really easy and good structure to build from that material. However it isn’t the only shape. There are squares and rounded shapes! Africa is a very big place and has lots of peoples, each having own unique culture and architecture.