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Houses Quotes by Stephen Gardiner
- Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
- In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
- In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
- In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
- Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
- The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
- The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
- The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
- 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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