Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardinerwas an English bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth25 April 1924
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order style outcomes
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
tree house gains
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
house influential approach
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
people wish should
People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
men caves mystery
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
architecture remember egyptian
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
art space roles
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
taken steps steps-forward
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
past ideas nomad
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
men swag circles
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
home sea land
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
dark discovery light
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
logic architecture formulas
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
order people want
What people want, above all, is order.