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

What people want, above all, is order.

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

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

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

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

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.