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• Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Past, Ideas, Nomad

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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

  Stephen Gardiner

  Architecture, Remember, Egyptian

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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

  Stephen Gardiner

  Lessons, Today, Architecture

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• And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Civilization, Gdp, Ties

  "The house: its origins and evolution".

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• 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

  House, Stones, Littles

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• Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

  Stephen Gardiner

  War, Rose, England

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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

  Stephen Gardiner

  Cities, House, Athens

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Egypt, Subordination, Subordinates

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Art, Space, Roles

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Garden, House, World

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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

  Stephen Gardiner

  People, Wish, Should

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• The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Tree, Gains

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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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

  Order, Style, Outcomes

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Found, Corridors

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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

  Stephen Gardiner

  Style, World, Remarkable

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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