6,000 Years of Housing

This encyclopaedic volume limns the rich story of housing around the world from the pre-urban dwellings of nomadic, semi-nomadic and sedentary societies to today. It covers housing around the world and suggests solutions for modern housing problems based on historical precedents.

About the author

Norbert Schoenauer is Macdonald Emeritus Professor of Architecture at McGill University. He lives in Montreal.

Product details

• Authors: Norbert Schoenauer, Schoenauer Norbert
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2003
• EAN: 9780393731200
• ISBN: 978-0-393-73120-0
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 206 mm x 279 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 1080 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, History: specific events and topics, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings