THE FOUNDATIONS OF HOME

What turned houses into homes

An episode from the series THE HISTORY OF HOME: NARRATED BY NICK OFFERMAN

Synopsis

We start with the foundations of the home, the cave dwellings of our earliest ancestors, and the wooden homes of Vikings, all the way to the soaring skyscrapers of modern metropolises.

Some of the incredible locations on the itinerary include a sleek, earthen eco-retreat built of lava; an ambitious archeological effort in France to build a medieval castle from scratch; Hampton Court Palace to explore the history behind King Henry VIII's brick pleasure palace; Pasadena, California, where movie buffs will recognize an iconic American Craftsman home; and San Francisco, where we meet award-winning Yves Béhar who is designing homes of the future.