Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

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.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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.