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.

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

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

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.

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

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