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

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

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

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

What people want, above all, is order..

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

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 medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages..

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look..

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

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

In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a scree….

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

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads..

Human requirements are the inspiration for art..

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

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

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

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

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community..