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

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

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.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

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

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

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