Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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