Stephen Gardiner Quotes
"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Art, Space, Zen)
"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Living)
"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Athens, Cities, Houses, Poor, Public)
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Art, Inspiration)
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Architecture, England, states, United)
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Design, People, Problems)
"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Architecture, Design, Community)
"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Ideas, Meaning, Past)
"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Men, Nature, Mystery)
"The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages."
- Stephen Gardiner
"What people want, above all, is order."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: People, Order, Want)
"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Balance)
"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."
- Stephen Gardiner
"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: War, Conflict, England, Roses)
"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Nature, Gain, Houses, Trees)
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Man)
"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Civilization, Culture, Greece)
"The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Balance, Concern, Discovery, Light)
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Houses)
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Architecture, Living)
"The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Country, Crisis, Influence, Religious)
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Architecture, Detail, English, Light)
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Life, Inspiration, Character)
"The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Man)
"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Order)
"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Design, Garden, Land)
"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge)
"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Gardens, Houses, World)
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: World)
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Houses, Struggle)
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Houses)
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Architecture, Formula, Logic)
"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: American, Necessity, Order, Style)
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: First, Man, Order, World)
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: People)
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Architecture, Flexibility, Today)
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Houses, Today)
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Home, Life, Land, Sea)
"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Man)
"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Thought)
"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Remarkable, Style, World)
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Houses)
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Architecture, Community)
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Civilization, Revolution)
"Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Idea, Creation, Houses)