I hope I will not be misunderstood if I say that the “Ancient Americas” exhibition is, for me, a culmination of my interests over the past thirty-five years and, in one sense, a justification of them. From 1955 until 1963, I studied the relationship between temples and landscape in Greece, while, from 1964 until 1973, I worked on similar problems in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. In 1975, I began to study French gardens and fortifications of the seventeenth century from the same point …