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

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.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

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

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.