Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country’s ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

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

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

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