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.

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.

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

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

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

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