All Stephen Gardiner Quotes
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
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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 logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
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The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
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The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
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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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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 mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
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The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
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Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
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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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