Daily Inspiration Quote by Harry Seidler

Confidence is doing a lot of work in that sentence - not the loud, chest-thumping kind, but the clipped certainty of a modernist who expects his buildings to argue back on his behalf. Seidler’s “I’ve always thought” is less hedging than timestamping: this isn’t a newfound PR-friendly opinion, it’s a long-held conviction that has survived fashion cycles, council meetings, critics, and the slow verdict of lived-in architecture. Then he tightens the screw with “I stand by that,” a phrase that reads like a designer’s closing statement after cross-examination.

The specific intent is clear: to frame Blues Point Tower not as a controversial experiment or a compromise with developers, but as a peak expression of his own standards. The subtext is even sharper. Seidler is preempting the two classic attacks on high-rise modernism: that it’s inhuman, and that it ages badly. By treating the building as “one of my best,” he invites evaluation on architectural terms - proportion, planning logic, structure, urban presence - rather than taste-based nostalgia for older Sydney.

Context matters: Seidler spent decades fighting the Australian suspicion that modern architecture was imported, elitist, or indifferent to place. Blues Point Tower, poised above the harbour, is exactly the kind of building that becomes a civic argument. “Stand by” signals he knows that arguments linger. It’s an architect insisting that time, if anything, has strengthened his case.