Stephen Gardiner Quotes

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.