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
Stephen Gardiner quotes about
today lessons architecture
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
wall chinese use
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.
community design looks
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
mean ideas house
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
civilization gdp ties
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
men views order
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
dwelling house age
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
country religious outcomes
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
men caves
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
fog light delicacy
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
community architecture individual
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
cities house athens
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
balance form pictorial
The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
art inspiration requirements
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.