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.

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

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

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

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 frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.