The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.