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.

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

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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.