The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
- Stephen Gardiner
Country, Crisis, Religious, Undergone
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
- Stephen Gardiner
Romans, Form, Known, Remarkably
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
- Stephen Gardiner
Outside, Land, Like, Unknown
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
- Stephen Gardiner
Range, Had, Large, Scottish
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
- Stephen Gardiner
Living, Egypt, Were, Subordinate
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
- Stephen Gardiner
Streets, Luxurious, Cities, Lined
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
- Stephen Gardiner
Nature, Mystery, Leave, Prompted
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
- Stephen Gardiner
Small, Which, Ever, Hardly
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
- Stephen Gardiner
Gardening, Design, Concerned, Garden
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
- Stephen Gardiner
Remarkable, Most, Domestic, Hardly
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
- Stephen Gardiner
Like, Identical, Flats, Anonymity
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
- Stephen Gardiner
Survive, Crowded, Steep, To Survive
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
- Stephen Gardiner
Past, Meaning, Like, Meaning Of
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
- Stephen Gardiner
Center, Noticed, Greeks, Navel
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
- Stephen Gardiner
Method, Material, Largely, Colonial
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
Character, Cannot, Exterior, Derives
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
- Stephen Gardiner
History, View, Outside World, Possibly
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
- Stephen Gardiner
War, England, Been, Roses
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
- Stephen Gardiner
Man, Cave, Leads, Frame
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
- Stephen Gardiner
Civilization, Center, Our, Greece
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
- Stephen Gardiner
Always, Like, Roman, Combine
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
- Stephen Gardiner
Most, Largest, Influential, French
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
- Stephen Gardiner
Light, Balance, Chief, French
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
- Stephen Gardiner
Community, Scale, Individual, Respected
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
- Stephen Gardiner
Aesthetic, Which, Applied, Presented
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
- Stephen Gardiner
Explore, Forward, Again, Order
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
- Stephen Gardiner
Flexibility, Relevant, Most, Lessons
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
- Stephen Gardiner
Architecture, Buildings, Problems
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
- Stephen Gardiner
New, Cave, Shelter, Creation
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
- Stephen Gardiner
Middle, Very, Became, Middle Ages
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
- Stephen Gardiner
Light, Subtle, Very, Detail
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
- Stephen Gardiner
Nature, Japanese, Ascendancy, Composition
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
- Stephen Gardiner
Search, Forward, Taken, Greater
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
- Stephen Gardiner
Private, Outside World, Exterior
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
- Stephen Gardiner
Contribution, Living, More, Egyptian
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
Roof, Use, Wished, Wall
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
- Stephen Gardiner
Extraordinary, Forward, Industrial
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
- Stephen Gardiner
Calm, Discover, Shape, Inner
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
- Stephen Gardiner
Architecture, Straight, Copied
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
- Stephen Gardiner
Thought, Process, Gradual, Hunter
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
- Stephen Gardiner
Art, Japanese, Zen, Concepts
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
- Stephen Gardiner
Japanese, Outside World, Houses
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
- Stephen Gardiner
Art, Human, Requirements, Inspiration
What people want, above all, is order.
- Stephen Gardiner
Architecture, People, Want, Above
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
- Stephen Gardiner
Whatever, Form, Pictorial, Balance
People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
- Stephen Gardiner
Wish, Like, Should, Allowed
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