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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 on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

  • "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

    Winston Churchill on Architecture

  • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

    Jim Rohn on Architecture

  • "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

    Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Harry Seidler

  • "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all."

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "Good design doesn't date."

  • "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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