Stephen Gardiner

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

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

“It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.”

“The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.”

“The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.”

“The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.”

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

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

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

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

“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 greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.”