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
order
The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
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.
order people want
What people want, above all, is order.
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.
conditions crowded establish houses steep territory
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
architecture buildings design good problems solved
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
industrial
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
egypt subordination subordinates
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
garden house world
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
house stones littles
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
style world remarkable
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
hunters process farmers
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
house height today
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
england united-states architecture
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.