“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”
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Famous Stephen Gardiner Quotes
“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden”
“What people want, above all, is order.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”
“Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.”
“Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.”
“The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution