Stephen Gardiner

Architect

1924-04-25

Books by Stephen Gardiner

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Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
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In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
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The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
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The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
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