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

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

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

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

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.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

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