Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c55.6

v1.c55.6

It does not mean that we should bid goodbye to all the advancement that our fore-fathers and the modern engineers and the architects have made in the art of building. The outlook needs a change. As the ancients reserved the superb art-craftmanship only to the buildings, devotional, and memorial, similar consideration should prevail with us. The public buildings, the temples, the town-halls may have edifices of large and sublime structures, but the dwelling houses, unless simple and cheap and laid in the surrounding of Nature, can neither be conducive to healh nor to the peace of mind—the two essentials of good living.