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

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 mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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

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

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

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