 He was excited about the challenge posed by having to invent the buildings, which permitted him compositional freedom to indulge in a complex interplay of form much like that permitted to a purely abstract painter, as well as a freedom to make multiple revisions of the arrangement.At the end of 1943 he had decided to title it "Three Periods of Architecture in Provence"; after realizing that in southern France people were living in homes next to ancient Roman architecture and that the distant past was woven into their daily life.At the beginning of 1946 he rechristened it "Villa Chedanne" in honor of a turn-of-the-century French architect who had an interest in Roman architecture.