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
industrial
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
architecture buildings design good problems solved
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
peace men shapes
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
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.
fog light delicacy
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
cities house athens
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
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.
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.