Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 1
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
Human requirements are the inspiration for art. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0