Man: The Builder still needs enclosures, ie. houses

A house is a means for a preferred enclosure, modulation and use of space. Even as Early Man was discovering Fire and inventing the Wheel, his search for the House Beautiful had begun.

Ten thousand years after Civilization – allegedly, The Era of Man: The Builder – is supposed to have begun, most people own a house only in their day dreams. A house is one of the most easily identifiable, minimal manifestations of civilization, which word, coincidentally, shares a common etymological root with civil engineering. The perennially transient descendant-dwellers of slums and shantytowns of Early Man are never allowed to forget, the search for the Enclosure Ideal is still not over.

Enclosures are so basic, it is impossible to even think of fulfilling the basic roti-kapada-makaan-shiksha-chikitsaa-rozegaar needs of our species without them.

• Grains and fertilizers need storage.
  
• Sheds and shops are required for making and selling cloth.
  
• Human families need homes.
  
• Schools and hospitals are necessary for education and medical support.
  
• Factories, offices, studios, workshops, laboratories, are enclosures where people work.
  
• People also need such enclosures as stadia, auditoria, restaurants, art galleries, discotheques, dance halls, temples, gompaas, churches, mosques and synagogues for the fulfillment of their cultural, social and emotional needs.
  
• Mausoleums such the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal even ensure (supposedly) immortal life after death.

Enclosure problems just do not have a one-time solution. Place and era specific solutions often cause problems elsewhere and in else time.