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
people worry
It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building.
government open
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.
people
Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
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.
living people
They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.
language ancient used
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
war technology earthquakes
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.
summer japan earthquakes
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.
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.
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.