ABSTRACT
Domestic architecture demonstrates an extraordinary variety of forms across the world and throughout history: houses are raised on stilts, cut into caves, large enough to house whole communities, reserved for a nuclear family, crafted to last only for a night’s rest, or built to house a family for generations. This variation suggests that house form is a function of many factors beyond the crossculturally relevant purpose of sheltering household activities of production, reproduction, consumption, and transmission.
