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

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

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.

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

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

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

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