#chi

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#between #chief #chief concern #concern #dark

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#architectural #center #civilization #concepts #culture

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. ↗

— Mary Garden

#beliefs #breeding #child #child abuse #children

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#both #community #georgian #individual #respected

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. ↗

— Mary Garden

#being #buildings #children #evil #hence

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#conscience #escort #flexible #inflexible #politeness

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#architecture #combine #community #design #french

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#flexibility #greatest #japanese #lessons #most

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#concerned #contribution #dead #egyptian #living

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#approach #chiefly #demonstrate #french #houses