Stephen Gardiner Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

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

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

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

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

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

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

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

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

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

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

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