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

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

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

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

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

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

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