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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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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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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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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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. – Louis Kahn

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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think its still coming to computer science. – Larry Wall

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The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, its completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. – Nick Clegg

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But the buildings identity resided in the ornament. – Louis Sullivan

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