Stephen Gardiner OBE (25 April 1924 – 15 February 2007) was a British architect, teacher and writer. Gardiner was born and raised in Chelsea in London. He was the younger son of , painter and principal of Goldsmiths College from 1929 to 1958, and , also a painter and one of Walter Sickert's favourite pupils at the Slade. His paternal grandfather was the journalist A. G. Gardiner. His elder brother, Patrick Gardiner, became a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford.