Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler, AC OBEwas an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth25 June 1923
CountryAustralia
Harry Seidler quotes about
beautiful hair architecture
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
dating design good-design
Good design doesn't date.
against changed marvellous mayor media north reaction
The media and the mayor of North Sydney, they all said how marvellous it was but councils changed and there was a reaction against it.
country men years
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.
people worry
It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building.
america migration abundance
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.