50 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.