Stephen Gardiner

"What people want, above all, is order."

"The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world."

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

"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."

"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."

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