“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”
Stephen Gardiner“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”
Stephen Gardiner“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”
Stephen Gardiner“The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.”
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“Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.”
Stephen Gardiner“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”
Stephen Gardiner“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”
Stephen Gardiner“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”
Stephen Gardiner“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”
Stephen Gardiner“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”
Stephen Gardiner