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

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

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

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

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