they were called reed built houses
Junks
The houses on stilts over the bayou waters are called stilt houses.æ These houses are built on stilts to keep flood waters and vermin out of the home.
pioneers built their own houses
Its name has not been changed and is still called the Alps
Sod. Mostly grass and dirt. These houses were called soddies. When the Vikings went to what we know as Canada, they built soddies.
because they needed somewhere to poo
The homes - and by extrapolation the homeowners - were called "soddies".
Pueblo
In the UK, houses built in the 1980s were fairly similar to houses built in the 1970s and those built now. Very recent houses tend to be smaller.
Nobody built the Matterhorn. It is a mountain. It was built by geological forces which pushed up the Alps.
They lived in houses made out of clay, mud, straw, and grass. They are called pueblos.