The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. – Stephen Gardiner
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. – Stephen Gardiner
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. – Stephen Gardiner
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. – Stephen Gardiner
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. – Stephen Gardiner
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. – Stephen Gardiner
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. – Stephen Gardiner
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. – Stephen Gardiner
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. – Stephen Gardiner
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. – Stephen Gardiner
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. – Stephen Gardiner
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. – Stephen Gardiner
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. – Stephen Gardiner
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. – Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. – Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. – Stephen Gardiner
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. – Stephen Gardiner
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. – Stephen Gardiner
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. – Stephen Gardiner
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner