Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk
Stephen Gardiner Religious Leader
Gender: Male
Citizenship: England
Born: Jan 1, 1497
Died: Nov 12, 1555
Stephen Gardiner was an English Roman Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I of England.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
architecture
What people want, above all, is order.
architecture
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
architecture
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
architecture
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
history
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
architecture
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
knowledge & wisdom
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
home
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
design
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
architecture
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
design & gardening
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
architecture
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
architecture