The habitations of man in all ages
A survey of dwellings across history by the French architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, published in London in 1876 for a general readership interested in domestic architecture. The pictures are line drawings of house plans, sectional cutaways and reconstructed bird's-eye views of ancient residences, with compass-marked site plans and scale bars; a designer might borrow their clear hatched-wall plan notation and layered cross-sections for diagrammatic architectural work.
