50 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.