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

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

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