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

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
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 chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
Stephen Gardiner

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
Stephen Gardiner

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Stephen Gardiner

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

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Stephen Gardiner

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

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

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
Stephen Gardiner

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
Stephen Gardiner

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