The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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