The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

- 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

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

What people want, above all, is order.

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner

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

- Stephen Gardiner