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
dating design good-design
Good design doesn't date.
government space needs
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.
europe firsts architecture
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.
bottom-of-the-barrel shapes domes
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
views starting-over eras
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.
frequent ground raised resistant resulted warm
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.