Top 46 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

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

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

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