Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people want, above all, is order.

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

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

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

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