Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— 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

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

— Stephen Gardiner

What people want, above all, is order.

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

— Stephen Gardiner

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and…

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— 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

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— 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

In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does…

— Stephen Gardiner