gardiner Quotes

“What people want, above all, is order.”

“The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”