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What people want, above all, is order.

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

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.

Stephen Gardiner

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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

Stephen Gardiner

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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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

Stephen Gardiner

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

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

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

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The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Stephen Gardiner

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

Stephen Gardiner

What people want, above all, is order.

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

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

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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

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

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

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

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner