 The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. |
| The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. |
| Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. |
| Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. |
| The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. |
| The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. |
| The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. |
| The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. |
| In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. |
| Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. |
| The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. |
| The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. |
| The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. |
| In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. |
| The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. |
| The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. |
| Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. |
| The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. |
| What people want, above all, is order. |
| The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. |
