Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people want, above all, is order.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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