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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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