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

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

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

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.