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there are already three-room (Biskupin) areas of bronze and iron.

They were built of


branches covered with clay, wood and stone. In the ancient period in Mesopotamia,
Egypt, houses were built from bricks hand-made from clay and dried in the sun. They
were multi-room buildings, often with an internal courtyard, then there were also multi-
storey buildings. In Europe, a Greek house and a Roman house developed. With the fall
of the Roman Empire, the development of construction collapsed. The traditions of the
Roman house were continued by Islamic architecture.

In Christian Europe, in the early Middle Ages, the function of houses was played by
fortified castles and wooden huts built in the area of castles and boroughs, or as
dispersed (village), in naturally protected areas - e.g. in a forest. In the cities in the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a house is usually a building with a wooden frame
structure, which began to be replaced by buildings with brick walls (buildings in the
construction of "half-timbered" buildings were erected at the beginning of the 20th
century). In the Gothic period, two- or three-story gable houses were usually erected in
municipal construction. The ground floor was intended for craft workshops and shops,
the first floor was used as a residential part, and there were warehouses in the attic.
Beginning with the Renaissance, town houses have gained wider, richly decorated
facades with larger windows, the number of rooms increases, and arcaded courtyards
are built inside. There are also tenement houses with arcades and roofs with attics. In
the Baroque period, this type of construction also began to function as city residences of
representatives of the highest social classes. Tenement houses resembled city palaces.

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