Explore Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

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.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

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

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

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

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

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

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