The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

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

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

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.