Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Stephen Gardiner

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country’s ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

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Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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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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In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

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In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

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Wall

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Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Stephen Gardiner

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country’s ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

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