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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 Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
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People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
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The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
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Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
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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 Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
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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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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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