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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.