Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Stephen Gardiner Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
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It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
4
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
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The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
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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.
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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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What people want, above all, is order.
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The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
12
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
13
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
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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.
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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
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In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
22
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
23
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
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The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
25
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
