French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
Stephen GardinerStonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Stephen GardinerThe largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen GardinerAnd 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