Harry Seidler

Harry Seidler was 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.

Date of birth:
25th June, 1923
Date of death:
9th March, 2006
"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
Topic(s): Architecture
"Good design doesn’t date."
― Harry Seidler
Topic(s): Design
"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
Topic(s): Architecture
"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all."
― Harry Seidler
Topic(s): Architecture
"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
Topic(s): Architecture

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