Stephen Gardiner

“Human requirements are the inspiration for art.”

“It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.”

“What people want, above all, is order.”

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

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

“Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”