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.

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

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.