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Log buildings and structures can be categorized as historic and modern. They are placed in opposition to wooden structures built using frameworks, according to Eugene Viollet-le-Duc. A diverse selection of their forms and styles with examples of architectural elements is discussed in the following articles:

• Log cabin – a rustic dwelling
• Log house – a style and method of building a quality house
• Izba – a type of Russian peasant house, often of log construction. The Cabin of Peter the Great is based on an izba.
• Crib barn – a type of barn built using log cribs
• Some barns are log barns such as the earliest of the Pennsylvania barn types.
• Blockhouse, garrison house – some blockhouse or garrison house structures are tightly fitted timber or stacked plank construction buildings to help withstand an attack.
• Azekurazukuri – a Japanese style of building using triangular log construction
• Some granaries (raccard, stabbur, hórreo) are of log or plank construction.
• The Upper Lusatian house, also called Umgebinde in German, combines timber framing and log building
• Wooden churches in Ukraine – many of the churches are recognized world heritage sites.
• Corner post construction sometimes called post-and-plank – this construction method blurs the line between timber framing and log construction with a frame infilled with logs or planks to form the walls.
• Timber dam – timber crib dams are used to dam rivers.
• Zakopane Style architecture – inspired by the regional art of Poland's highland region known as Podhale uses log construction.
• Hogan – this Native American dwelling evolved to be built of logs.
• Chalet – Originally a dwelling-barn-house type farmhouse typically of timber construction (blockbau)
• Black Forest house – traditional farmhouse type of timber construction
• Octagonal churches in Norway are of log construction, some dating from the 17th century
• For Finnish and German language users see the special type of Finnish log church construction called Tukipilarikirkko or Stützpfeilerkirche

Examples of log buildings and structures

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  Log windmill in Russia
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  Log church, Kizhi, Russia
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  Corner post construction in an open-air museum in Slovenia
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  Baroque granary vulgo Prueger at Mitterdorf #10, Strassburg, Austria
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  Three-story, octagonal, log threshing barn with a bridge to the second floor in Nätra, Sweden