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

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

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

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

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.