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In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

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Houses

Struggle

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

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World

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

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Wisdom

Knowledge

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

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

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Order

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

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Man

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

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

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

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Architecture

Living

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

Stephen Gardiner

Houses

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

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Man