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From Quotes by Stephen Gardiner
- Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
- It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
- 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 Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
- Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
- It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
- Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
- Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
- The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
- Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
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