Stephen Gardiner Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. — Stephen Gardiner

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. — Stephen Gardiner

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

What people want, above all, is order. — Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art. — Stephen Gardiner

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner

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

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. — Stephen Gardiner

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. — Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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