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

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

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

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 mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

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