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

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.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

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.