Stephen Gardiner

“The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.”

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

“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.”

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

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

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

“The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.”