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

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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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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

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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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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

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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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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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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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Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

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