French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
Stephen GardinerThe Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
Stephen GardinerNewton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.
Stephen Gardiner