In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

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

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

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It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

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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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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

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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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