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Stephen Gardiner Quotes

British - Architect | April 25, 1924 - February 15, 2007

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

Stephen Gardiner

French Approach Most Houses Largest

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

Stephen Gardiner

Nature Trees Gain Composition Houses

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

Stephen Gardiner

Great Light Architecture Detail Soft

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

Stephen Gardiner

Influence Country Crisis Outcome Had

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

Stephen Gardiner

Small Found Apart Houses Which Ever

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

Stephen Gardiner

Light Balance Discovery Dark Chief

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

Stephen Gardiner

Style American Order Necessity Grid

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

Stephen Gardiner

History Man World View Outside His

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

Stephen Gardiner

Walk People Wish Where Like Should

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

Stephen Gardiner

Today Heights Plans Floor Anonymity

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

Stephen Gardiner

Man Calm Surroundings Shape Discover

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

Stephen Gardiner

Thought Process Slow Farmer Hunter

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