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

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

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

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

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

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