Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

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

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.