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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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"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
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"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
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"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."
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"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."
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"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."
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"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
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"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames."
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"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
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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."
Civilization
"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
Architecture
"What people want, above all, is order."
People
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
People
"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
Thought
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
Architecture
"The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look."
Today
"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
Art
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
Architecture
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
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