Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

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.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

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

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

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

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.

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