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

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

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

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

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