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

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

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.

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

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

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

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden