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

Stephen Gardiner

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

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Stephen Gardiner

Balance

What people want, above all, is order.

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

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

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

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

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Art

Inspiration

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

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

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Living

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

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

Stephen Gardiner

Today