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

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

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.

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

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

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