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

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

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

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

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.
Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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