6,000 Years Of Housing (Revised And Expanded); Author: Schoenauer, Norbert; Paperback

Author: Schoenauer, Norbert
Revised And Exp Edition; Paperback; 500 Line Drawings
502 pages
Published: September 2000
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
ISBN: 0393730522

Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book limns the rich history of housing: pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies, urban houses of ancient civilizations, classical Greece and Rome; traditional North African and Asian homes; and the domestic architecture of the Western world.Revised edition. An outline of the history of housing from the Stone Age to the present. The evolution of house forms is traced, with discussions on the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic societies, the urban houses of the classical civilizations, traditional Asian homes and modern Western domestic architecture.