Schoenauer, Norbert, 1923-2001.
6,000 years of housing / Norbert Schoenauer.
Rev. and expanded ed.
New York : W.W. Norton, ©2000.
502 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
"Part architecture, part history, and part anthropology, this encyclopedic book limns the story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic, and sedentary agricultural societies to the present. Ancient urban dwellings were inward looking, ranged around a courtyard. Until fairly recently, these dwelling types survived in indigenous urban house forms in the Islamic world, India, China, and the Iberian peninsula and Latin America. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, however, outward-looking house forms replaced the ancient form in most of Europe and the New World.
In the Middle Ages houses served both as homes and as places of work, but gradually the domestic and business lives of the inhabitants became separate. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, profound changes in the residential development of the western world occurred: housing became segregated along socioeconomic lines and dwelling types polarized, with low-densisty, single-family houses at one extreme, and tall, high-density, multifamily temements and apartments at the other. Side effects of America's automobile-intensive suburban dream housing include inefficient land use, pollution, and urban decay. 6,000 YEARS of HOUSING chronicles how this came about, and suggests solutions based on a rich variety of historical precedents."--Back cover.
0393730522
9780393730524 (hardback)
9780393731200 (paperback)
0393731200 (paperback)
Dwellings History.
Architecture, Domestic History.
Vernacular architecture History.
Habitations Histoire.
Architecture vernaculaire Histoire.
Architecture, Domestic.
Dwellings.
Vernacular architecture.
Domestic architecture History.
History.
Six thousand years of housing
Localisation: Bibliothèque main 213106
Cote: NA7125 .S3 2000
Statut: Disponible
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