Quotes from Stephen Gardiner

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people want, above all, is order.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

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

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

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