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

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

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

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

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

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

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.