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" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "
Problems
People
Architecture
" In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. "
Space
Art
Dominant
" In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. "
Extraordinary
Single
Furniture
" Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. "
Unknown
Life
Outside
" Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. "
Flexibility
Most
Today
" The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. "
Man
Ancient
Arms
" The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. "
Our
Never
Civilization
" The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. "
Found
Corridor
Houses
" The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. "
Character
Inspiration
Interior
" The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. "
Leads
Cave
Frame
" The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. "
Order
Go
Forward
" The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. "
Garden
Design
Beyond
" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "
Wisdom
Search
Knowledge
" The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. "
Story
Civilization
Forward
" The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. "
Private
World
Interior
" The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. "
Gain
Nature
Composition
" The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. "
Houses
Most
Largest
" The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. "
Architecture
Logic
Aesthetic
" The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. "
Form
Whatever
Pictorial
" The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. "
Middle
Middle Ages
Medieval
" The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. "
Come
Out
Nature
" The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. "
Form
Housing
Modern
" Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. "
Past
Meaning
Like
" Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. "
Conflict
Roses
Up
" Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. "
United
United States
Architecture
" What people want, above all, is order. "
Order
Want
People
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