6 Quotes & Sayings By Harry Seidler

Harry Seidler, born in Vienna in 1915, studied architecture at the city's Technical University before being drafted into the Austrian army. He fought with the German army in Russia and Poland, but he was captured by the Russians in July 1941. Tortured by the Russians, he was then sent on a death march to the Mauthausen concentration camp. It was at this camp that he met his future wife, Alice Gebauer Read more

They were liberated by the US army in 1945. Harry Seidler moved to Australia in 1948 where he worked for his father-in-law's architectural firm before establishing his own practice. He designed iconic Australian buildings like Shrine of Remembrance (1953) and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1970).

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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. Harry Seidler
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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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Good design doesn't date. Harry Seidler