What people want, above all, is order.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

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

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

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

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.