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

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

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

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

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

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.