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 exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

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The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

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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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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

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In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

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