Stephen Gardiner quotes

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. (Stephen Gardiner)
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. View quote
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The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. View quote
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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. View quote
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In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. View quote
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The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. View quote
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Human requirements are the inspiration for art. View quote
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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. View quote
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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. View quote
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The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. View quote
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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. (Stephen Gardiner)
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. View quote
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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. View quote
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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. View quote
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It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. View quote
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It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. View quote
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. View quote
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The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. View quote
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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. View quote
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People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish. View quote
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. (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. View quote
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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. View quote
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The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. View quote
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. View quote
Stephen Gardiner