Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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