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• Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
• The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
• The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
• What people want, above all, is order.
• Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
• Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
• The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
• It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
• The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
• Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
• The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
• Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

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