Ancient cultures such as Egypt and Rome to make a house-building from the oral tradition to written practice, and able to formulate the architecture for building very complex, like the pyramids and the Coliseum. They also build more buildings every day, such as universities, hospitals and Roman baths. That is the architecture developed over the centuries.
Twentieth century architecture built in this century of experience building, but want to simplify and mass-production building as the technology becomes more efficient and rapidly growing population. It gave rise to modern architecture, a very minimalist style where every detail is unnecessary and jewelry is removed, leaving only the building itself - basically, a big box. The building can still be seen (and lived) now, and very functional, but many people consider them to be very ugly.
At the end of this century, post-modern architecture reaction, putting it back in touch with the flowers and drawing in all of history to find different ways to design an attractive building. Many postmodernist buildings do remain, but the big tower, especially in big cities or buildings such as Museums and galleries who want to be a little more unique than the average building.
If you are considering how to design your home, you should consider where we are now building a house is a kind of post-post-modern era, has focused on designing for people . New home built by the people who lived there in mind above all else - all kinds of learning about people's behavior and preferences are constantly made, and used to design .