Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

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

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.

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

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.