50 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

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

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

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

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.