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Australian
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Architect
June 25
, 1923 -
March 9
, 2006
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
Technology
War
Architecture
Great
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
Architecture
Use
Shapes
Arch
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
Inspirational
Beautiful
Business
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Harry Seidler
Best
Thought
Stand
Buildings
Good design doesn't date.
Harry Seidler
Good
Design
Date
Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
Harry Seidler
People
Nobody
Talking
Sydney
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
You
Government
Space
Know
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
Harry Seidler
Age
Artist
Visual
Rebirth
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
Harry Seidler
Language
Used
Ancient
Form
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
Architecture
Spread
Europe
Visual
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
View
Peak
Starting
Out
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
Earth
Buildings
Warm
Summer
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
Buildings
America
English
Migration
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