Words matter. These are the best Stephen Gardiner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
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 interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
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 chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
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 medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
What people want, above all, is order.
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man’s first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
