Stephen Gardiner's Quotes

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

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

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

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 frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people want, above all, is order.

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.

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

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

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

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

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