Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

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

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

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

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

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.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.