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

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

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

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

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.

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