In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

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

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

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

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