Harry Seidler Quotes

• Good design doesn't date.

  Harry Seidler

  Dating, Design, Good Design

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• Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

  Harry Seidler

  Beautiful, Hair, Inspirational Business

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• 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 the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

  Harry Seidler

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Harry Seidler (1963). “Houses, buildings and projects: 1955/63. Maisons, réalisations et projets. Häuser, Bauten und Grossprojekte”

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• I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

  Harry Seidler

  Towers, Building

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• At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

  Harry Seidler

  Artist, Age, Becoming

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• 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 tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Summer, Japan, Earthquakes

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• 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 infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

  Harry Seidler

  War, Technology, Earthquakes

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• The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

  Harry Seidler

  Bottom Of The Barrel, Use, Arches

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• The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

  Harry Seidler

  Language, Ancient, Structure

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• 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 visual elaboration.

  Harry Seidler

  Europe, Firsts, Architecture

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• 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 open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

  Harry Seidler

  Government, Space, Needs

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• 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.

  Harry Seidler

  Country, Men, Years

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• 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 translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

  Harry Seidler

  America, Migration, Abundance

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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 periods in western civilisation.

  Harry Seidler

  Views, Starting Over, Eras

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