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Was Harry Seidler a sad old sausage?

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Was Harry Seidler a sad old sausage?

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Call him a sad old sausage trapped in an aesthetic that flowered in the tragic years between the Wars, and he replied that this was no aesthetic, but the very definition of architecture. Modernism was the end of history. Reason and science had vanquished vain style, mere aesthetics. The high-rise and the skyscraper were rational solutions to age-old problems. Simplicity of form, and truth to materials and structure returned architecture to its true heart. No longer was architecture about style for the rich: as it had been for 500 years after Brunelleschi. No: Modernism placed the user above all. Now architecture was dedicated to utility for the user: sane, rational design.