Top 46 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

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

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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

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

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

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