Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
What people want, above all, is order.
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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