"If there is one country and its people……" — Harry Seidler
"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 surely be Italy."
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17 Quotes by Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler has 17 quotes on this site.
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Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is…
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From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on…
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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and…
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After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending…
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After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant…
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Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground…
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The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we…
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As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is…
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At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
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I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
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The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
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Good design doesn't date.
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we…
— Bill Bryson
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid…
— James Buchan
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal…
— David Cameron
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
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Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships…
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