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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- 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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- 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.