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Good design doesn't date.
Harry Seidler / Architect
Dating
Design
Good
Good Design
Date
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At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
Harry Seidler / Architect
Age
Artist
Becoming
Rebirth
Visual
Could
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The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
Harry Seidler / Architect
Ancient
Form
Language
Structure
Egyptians
Minimal
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I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Harry Seidler / Architect
Building
Towers
Blues
Buildings
Tower
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Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
Harry Seidler / Architect
Fifty
Sydney
Years Ago
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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 / Architect
Inspirational
Architecture
Business
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Hair
Hopefully
Inspirational Business
Rational
Sensible
Procedure
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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 / Architect
Architecture
Arches
Bottom Of The Barrel
Shapes
Use
Arch
Barrel
Extended
Inventors
Romans
Supporting
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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 / Architect
Baroque
Civilisation
Eras
Periods
Starting Over
Views
Western
Architectural
Borne
Peak
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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 / Architect
Earthquakes
Japan
Summer
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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 / Architect
Men
Country
Years
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Japan's 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 / Architect
Earth
Japan
Raised
Summer
Timber
Warm
Buildings
Frequent
Lightweight
Resistant
Resulted
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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 / Architect
Government
Space
Needs
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The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
Harry Seidler / Architect
Rules
Apartments
Open Space
Restrictive
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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 / Architect
Architecture
Cradle
Daring
Europe
Extending
Firsts
Millennium
Spread
Visual
Italy
Minimal
Structural
Throughout
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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 / Architect
Art
Technology
Thinking
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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 / Architect
Abundance
America
Available
Migration
Precedent
Prototype
Timber
Buildings
Early Days
Locally
Material
Mostly
Translated
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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 / Architect
Architecture
Technology
War
Advanced Technology
Allowing
Characteristics
Earthquakes
Tall
Traditional
World War Ii
Advanced
Buildings
Earthquake
Expressing
Japanese
Infusing
Resistant
Strides
World War
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