British - Architect | April 25, 1924 - February 15, 2007
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner
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Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
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The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
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The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
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