The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
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.
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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 mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
