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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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
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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.
- 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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