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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Athens
Buildings
Cities
Houses
Like
Lined
Luxurious
Narrow
Poor
Public
Public Buildings
Spite
Streets
design
copy
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Dead
Egypt
Living
Subordinate
Were
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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Art
Assumed
Concepts
Dominant
Japanese
Position
Role
Space
Strengthened
Zen
design
copy
In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Gardens
Houses
Interior
Japanese
Outside
Outside World
World
design
copy
In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Conditions
Crowded
Difficult
Establish
Had
Houses
Steep
Struggle
Survive
Territory
To Survive
design
copy
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.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Able
Acts
Between
Chinese
East
Gap
Roof
Screen
Top
Use
Wall
Were
Wished
design
copy
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Central
Extraordinary
Furniture
Had
Hearth
Houses
Large
Little
Range
Room
Scottish
Single
Stone
design
copy
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Domestic
Emerges
Georgian
Hardly
Most
Remarkable
Style
Surprising
World
design
copy
It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Farmer
Gradual
Hunter
Process
Slow
Thought
design
copy
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Able
Calm
Discover
Inner
Man
Only
Shape
Surroundings
design
copy
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Ground
Home
Land
Life
Like
Outside
Sea
Secure
Unknown
design
copy
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Anonymity
Certain
Flats
Floor
Following
Gained
Heights
Houses
Identical
Like
Plans
Today
design
copy
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Architecture
Flexibility
Greatest
Japanese
Lessons
Most
Relevant
Today
design
copy
People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Allowed
Like
People
Should
Walk
Where
Wish
design
copy
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Attempts
Built
First
His
Man
Order
Outside
Outside World
Possibly
Presents
View
World
design
copy
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
~ Stephen Gardiner
American
Colonial
Grid
Largely
Material
Method
Necessity
Order
Outcome
Reveals
Style
design
copy
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Ancient
Ancient Greeks
Arms
Center
Circle
Extended
Greeks
His
Legs
Man
Noticed
design
copy
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Ancient
Architectural
Center
Civilization
Concepts
Culture
Greece
Lost
Never
Our
Ties
Western
Western Culture
design
copy
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Balance
Between
Chief
Chief Concern
Concern
Dark
Discovery
French
Impressionist
Light
design
copy
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Also
Apart
Corridor
Ever
Found
Hardly
Houses
Serve
Small
Which
design
copy
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