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

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

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