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.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

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

What people want, above all, is order.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

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