Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

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

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

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

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

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

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

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

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

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

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