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.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

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

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