Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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.

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

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