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

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

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

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

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

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

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.