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.

Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book examines the history of housing: pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies; urban houses of ancient civilizations, classical Greece and Rome; and the domestic architectures of the Western world.