Edwin Lutyens

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

A garden scheme should have a backbone a central idea beautifully phrased.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.