Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

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

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

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

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

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

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

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

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

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

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

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

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

What people want, above all, is order.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.