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

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

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

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