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

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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

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It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

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The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

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Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

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

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Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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What people want, above all, is order.

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