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

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

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

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

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

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.