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.

What people want, above all, is order.

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

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

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

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

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.