"Arguments have been powerfully made for a physical and environmental determinism that considers that advantageous aclimates and temperatures, soils and reasons give shape to man`s culture; thay have been rebutted as vigorously by those who argue that culture determines building and settlement form. But there is much evidence to soe that both apply (...)" Paul Oliver, in Dwellings: The House across the World
See more: Huntington, Mainsprings of Civilization takes an enviromental determinist position, whitch in indirectly rebutted by Rapoport, Cultural Determinants, 7-35
Peru, Machu Pichu, Inca`s retangular dwelling.
Peru, Kuelap, Chachapoya`s circular dwelling