Stephen Gardiner Quotes

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do.

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.

A door handle is very symbolic to me. It is the first object that one will interact with before entering a new space.

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

The room within is the great fact about the building.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

Because I couldn't go for three.