Top 46 Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

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

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#6. Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

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

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

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

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#11. The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

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

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

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

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#15. Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

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#16. The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

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#17. Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

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#18. The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

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#19. In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

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#20. The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

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

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

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#23. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

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#24. The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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

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#26. The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

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

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#28. In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

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

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

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

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

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#33. 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.

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

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

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#36. What people want, above all, is order.

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

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

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

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#40. The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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