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
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.
today lessons architecture
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
order people want
What people want, above all, is order.
logic architecture formulas
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
dark discovery light
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
taken steps steps-forward
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
architecture remember egyptian
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
tree house gains
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
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.
looks today modern
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
england united-states architecture
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
hunters process farmers
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
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.
garden house world
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.