Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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• Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
• The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
• The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
• What people want, above all, is order.
• Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
• Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
• The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
• It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
• The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
• Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
• The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
• Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
• The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
• In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
• The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
• The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
• 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…
• Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
• The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
• The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

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