Top 46 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

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

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.