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

— Stephen Gardiner

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People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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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

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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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