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Greece
In Greece, the houses were at first of wood and later brick or stone, but always very small and modest, the houses were divided into two parts:
one for the men who occupied the ground floor: andronitis.
another for women who occupied the upper floor or the back end: gynoecium. -
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Rome: country houses and blocks of flats
In the first century of the Christian era, in large Roman cities were built whole blocks of buildings, called islands, and outside "garden" or "fifth".
In Rome, the facade of multifamily buildings was occupied by a store or the slave lodge keeper. The hallway leading to the atrium, and chopped vast square piece with an opening in the center through which rainwater falling on a pylon. -
Jun 22, 700
Middle Ages: stone, adobe and wood
However, around 700 d C, for various reasons, defensive or climate, many people lived in caves carved and communities of eastern Central Asia (still exist) in China, etc..
While in the 800 d C, stone palaces, such as the Maya, with adobe houses for the people, or wood (from the Vikings) indicating the status, weather or the media. In Europe in the thirteenth century, the newly rich built magnificent stone houses, while the people continued to use the wooden huts with walls coated with mud -
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Houses circular
The Northern European Celts built c. 500. C. circular stone houses with thatched roof. In the Greek city states courtyard houses were built c. 400. C. Alexandria is estimated that in the year 200 BC. C. was about 300,000. -
Modern Age: The brick
From the sixteenth century widespread use clay bricks to build houses in northern Europe. Come early European mansions. In the eighteenth century, in many European and American cities, buildings are erected styles "smart" for the new bourgeoisie. -
The nineteenth century: shacks and cottages
In the early nineteenth century the cities are full of workers who migrate from the countryside to find work in the factories. They live in the "slums" in crowded, unsanitary conditions, mostly in the full misery. In the late nineteenth century come the first residential neighborhoods, housing blocks eclectic style, the cottages and garden cities for the bourgeoisie. Some historians consider the Red House by Philip Webb (1859) the first design of "modern house". -
twentieth Century
During the twentieth century housing in the cities becomes denser, and the number of homes decreases while increasing the number of flats or houses in height. Single-family homes are located in the most affluent neighborhoods in the outskirts of cities. Also common as a second home, holiday or weekend and concepts of internal and external decoration become relevant. -
Palacios and courtyard houses
In the Indus Valley cities such as Mohenjo-Daro, Kalibangan and Harappa, with large courtyard houses (c. 1800. C.). The palace of King Minos dates from 1700. C.
In Ancient Egypt the wealthy citizens built mansions. In the new city of Akhetaten houses were built with a central courtyard.
Towards the year 1300. C. Olmec culture emerged. The Olmecs of Central built mud houses, of which only vestiges remain -
cottages
In Ancient Egypt the inhabitants build houses c. 3000. C. saved as much resemblance to the poseriores centuries houses, with adobe walls and roofs of palm wood. There are stilt houses (houses on stilts) in the middle of lakes in various parts of Central America. -
first houses
Come the first known populations c. 6000. C., on the fertile banks of the great rivers of the Middle East, linked to agricultural activities. In the Mediterranean regions c. 5500. C., adobe houses are built next to the fields -
Precedents
The huts of hunters, the forerunner of the first houses, simple shelters of branches and bushes, were built by our ancestors at least 300,000 years ago. Found remains of shops built hunter skins and bones of mammoth, c. 35-10000 a. C. The wood winter camps for large family groups of European nomadic hunters dating c. 12,000. C.
Already in Catal Huyuk, now Turkey, (10000-6000 BC) are remains stable housing, the building material was clay (sun-dried pieces). Successive Neolithic constructions on m
