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

• What people want, above all, is order.
• The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
• Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
• The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
• The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
• The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
• Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
• Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
• French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.
• Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.