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Harry Seidler

"Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it."

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"Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

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"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that."
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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."
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"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"Good design doesn't date."
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"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
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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."
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"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."
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