Quote by Harry Seidler
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its exte

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

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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

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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

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Architecture is not an inspirational business, its a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things thats all. – Harry Seidler

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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. – Minoru Yamasaki

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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. – Rem Koolhaas

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The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. – Stephen Gardiner

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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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