Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.