The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. - 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
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
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. - 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 largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. - Stephen Gardiner
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. - Stephen Gardiner
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. - Stephen Gardiner
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 logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. - Stephen Gardiner
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. - Stephen Gardiner
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. - Stephen Gardiner
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. - Stephen Gardiner
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. - Stephen Gardiner
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. - Stephen Gardiner
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. - Stephen Gardiner
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. - Stephen Gardiner
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. - Stephen Gardiner
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. - Stephen Gardiner
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. - 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
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. - Stephen Gardiner
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. - Stephen Gardiner