432 pp. 170 plates in full color, 417 monochrome illustrations, 300 drawings and architectural plans. Traces the development and evolution of the house in all its manifestations from prehistoric times to the present. In additional to precise physical descriptions of a multitudinous variety of dwellings--showing how they developed from their predeccessors and how they influenced the design of houses that followed--they book explores the importance of houses to society, and the way of life of the people who inhabited them. It relates the structures and their architectural styles to furnishings, and interior design. ornamentation and decorative devices with changing modes of architecture.
