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The American West Coast holds a distinguishing architectural style, reflecting their ideology, from the East Coast, where this essay is written. The stereotypical term, which can be insulting to some, “granola” is used to describe the population of the West Coast, particularly British Columbia (not including Los Angeles, which will be understood later, if not already) and the importance they assign to the natural environment, having an abundance of and surrounding them in their landscape. Pertaining to architecture specifically, I will argue that this ideology, even if considered stereotypical, is present and characterises their urban landscape, specifically house-architecture, trying to bring the natural landscape into it, and has been present in their history.

Vancouver holding a West Coast architectural style is not simply because of its location. Historically, the natives inhabiting the land before European settlement, were innovative and expressive in their architectural constructions: using the timber surrounding them (Vastokas, 13), developing the post-and-beam construction f...

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