ABSTRACT
Before examining the houses themselves it would be as well to have a clear idea of the kind of life they were intended for. While houses in the Western World to-day are divided according to functions, for privacy with bedrooms, dining-rooms, sitting-rooms, play-rooms, studies and so-on, Moslem, and oriental houses in general, provide for more people at a time and are divided into social categories. First, private and public, then the former further divided according to the member of the family, each branch with its independent quarters. When the house can no longer accommodate them, another house is built on the same or an adjacent plot and sometimes these grow to become many inter-connecting houses, to form a family neighbourhood-unit.
