Expert: Edison - 3/30/2008

Question
Brazilian Types of Houses and why they live in this kind of houses.

Answer
Hello Suliman,

Most people in Brazil live in brick houses or apartment buildings (especially in big cities). The brick raw material is cheap (mud) and the labor to build the houses is inexpensive (minimum wages are low).

Wood based houses are very common, especially in the Amazon and rural areas where big trees are abundant and the limited access to bricks and cement.

Few indigenous Brazilians still live in the jungle in tribal houses made of tree trunks and leaves.

Check these sites for some pictures and additional information:

http://www.brazilbrazil.com/houses.html
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/74256459ErldoW
http://www.travel-images.com/view.shtml?brazil231.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Parque_Ind%C3%ADgena_do_Xingu.jpg
http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/english/whwhhow/where/indexi.html
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3416/minis_i.htm
http://www.aluguetemporada.com.br/riodejaneiro/rentals.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro
http://www.bigfoto.com/sites/galery/riodejan/rio_de_janeiro_10.jpg
http://www.bigfoto.com/sites/galery/riodejan/rio_de_janeiro_16x.jpg

Thanks for your interest about Brazil.

Edison