French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
Stephen Gardiner
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
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In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
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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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In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.
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In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
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It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
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It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
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Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
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