what was the place of habitation in ancient time
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I think they lived in caves
The History of Human Habitation: Ancient Domestic Architecture in Nineteenth Century Europe
Shelley Hales
Charles Garnier’s exhibition L’Histoire de l’habitation humaine, designed for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, included several reconstructions of ancient houses. Most famous for the new Paris Opera House, the architect created 44 ‘reconstructions’ of past house-types arranged along a street to allow visitors literally to walk the world. His ancient houses are largely forgotten by Classicists, but they offer great insight into a recalibration of understanding of the nature and value of the relation between antiquity and the modern world in the later nineteenth century, documenting an ethnographic turn that allows us to look back at the century’s domestic reconstructions through a different (and perhaps less comfortable) lens.
In his subsequently-published accompanying narrative, the ethnographic played as large a part of Garnier’s explanation of these homes as the architectural and aesthetic (qualities that had dominated response to earlier reconstructions), as he distilled into each model the ‘characteristic’ domestic features which he felt best reflected a culture’s ideologies. The houses were notionally (if not physically) organised in three categories: prehistoric, historic, and contemporary primitive. The ancient world featured in the second category, itself subdivided between primitive civilizations (including the Egyptians and Etruscans) and those arising from Aryan invasion (conveniently allowing Gallic architecture to sit alongside the Greek and Roman). Classical Antiquity was represented by a Greek, Roman and, most innovatively, a Gallo-Roman house; their ancestry conveyed by the presence of an Etruscan house and their trajectories in west and east demonstrated through Romanesque and Byzantine houses respectively.