#architecture

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#both #community #georgian #individual #respected

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#architecture #combine #community #design #french

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#flexibility #greatest #japanese #lessons #most

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#concerned #contribution #dead #egyptian #living

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

— Stephen Gardiner

#copied #england #states #straight #united

What people want, above all, is order. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#above #order #people #want

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #different #different way #give #i

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #artist #build #buildings #deliberately

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. ↗

— Maya Lin

#thought #warmth

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #because #harder #make #me