Stephen Gardiner famous 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.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Inspiration #Character

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Garden #Land #Design

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

#People #Design #Problem

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

#Peace #Men #Shapes

The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Civilization #Revolution #Stories

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

#Architecture #Remember #Egyptian

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

#Wall #Chinese #Use

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Art #Inspiration #Requirements

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

#Fog #Light #Delicacy

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Men #Caves

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

#Country #Religious #Outcomes

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

#Dwelling #House #Age

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

#Art #Space #Roles

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

#Taken #Steps #Steps Forward

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

#Today #Lessons #Architecture

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

#House #World #Architecture

What people want, above all, is order.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Order #People #Want

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

#Men #Views #Order

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

#Logic #Architecture #Formulas

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Dark #Discovery #Light

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

#Home #Land #Sea

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

#Men #Swag #Circles

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

#Past #Ideas #Nomad

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#England #United States #Architecture

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

#War #Rose #England

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

#Looks #Today #Modern

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

#Men #Caves #Mystery

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Balance #Form #Pictorial

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

#House #Influential #Approach

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

#House #Tree #Gains

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

#Order #Style #Outcomes

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

#House #Found

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

#People #Wish #Should

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

#House #Height #Today

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

#Hunters #Process #Farmers

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

#Civilization #Gdp #Ties

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

#Community #Design #Looks

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Community #Architecture #Individual

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

#Mean #Ideas #House

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

#Cities #House #Athens

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Egypt

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

#Garden #House #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

#House #Stones #Littles

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

#Style #World #Remarkable

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

#Order