Harry Seidler Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Good design doesn't date. — Harry Seidler

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

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

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

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

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. — 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. — Harry Seidler

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

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

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it. — Harry Seidler

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

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

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