The fascinating evolution of house forms from the Stone Age to the present. 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. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.