British - Architect | April 25, 1924 - February 15, 2007
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
Stephen Gardiner
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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.
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In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
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In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
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Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
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