Stephen Gardiner

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

What people want, above all, is order.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.