Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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

Design, Good, Problems

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

Able, Calm, Inner

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

Life, Home, Sea

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

Lost, Culture, Western

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

Past, Until, Ideas

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

Design, Community, Looks

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

Both, Individual, Community

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

Mean, Idea, Creation

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
Stephen Gardiner

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

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

Living, Dead, Egypt

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

Art, Space, Role

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

Outside, Houses, Japanese

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

Struggle, Difficult, Survive

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

Between, Able, Top

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

Single, Room, Large

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
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Style, Remarkable, Surprising

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

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

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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Today, Greatest, Lessons

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

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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History, Order, View

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

American, Order, Style

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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Legs, Ancient, Noticed

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

Dark, Light, Between

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Architect

Born: April 25, 1924

Died: February 15, 2007

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