Harry Seidler Quotes

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• Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak…
• From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly…
• The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
• After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal…
• After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and…
• Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth…
• The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with…
• As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of…
• If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must…
• At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
• I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
• The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
• Good design doesn't date.
• Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
• Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
• It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building.
• They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.

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