 Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. |
| Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. |
| Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. |
| The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. |
| The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. |
| It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. |
| The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. |
| The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. |
| In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished. |
| It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. |
| Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. |
| Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. |
| French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. |
| The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. |
| The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. |
| Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. |
| People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish. |
| The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. |
| The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. |
| In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. |
