Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

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

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

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