Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-485) and index.