What people want, above all, is order.

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.

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

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

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

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.