Seidler, Harry (1923 - 2006)

Summary

Harry Seidler collaborated with Pier Luigi Nervi on the Australia Square project in Sydney in 1967 and on the MLC centre fronting Martin Place in Sydney in 1975.

Details

Major commissions include:
* Rose Seidler House, Wahroonga, New South Wales 1948-50;
* Australia Square, Sydney 1961-67;
* Australian Embassy, Paris 1973-77;
* Hong Kong Club and Office Building, Hong Kong 1980-84;
* Riverside Centre, Brisbane 1984-86;
* Waverley Art Gallery, Melbourne 1988-90;
* QV1, Perth 1987-91.

Other major awards include:
* Wilkinson Award 1965, 1966, 1967;
* Civic Design Award 1967;
* Gold Medal RAIA 1976;
* RAIA Sir Zelman Cowan National Award 1987;
* Gold Medal City of Vienna 1989;
* RAIA Lustig and Moar Prize 1989;
* Sir John Sulman Medal 1951, 1967, 1981, 1983, 1991;
* RAIA National Interior Architecture Award 1991;
* RAIA National Commercial Architecture Award 1991, 1992;
* Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects 1996;
* Austrian Gold Cross Hon. (First Class) Arts and Sciences 1996.

Chronology

1944

Education - Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

1945 - 1946

Education - Master of Architecture (MArch), Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

1948

Life event - Arrived in Sydney, Australia

1949

Career position - Private practice

1972

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - for services to architecture

1987

Award - Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) - for service to the advancement of architecture in Australia

1996 -

Career position - Visiting Professor, University of Sydney

2001

Award - Centenary Medal - For service to the community through architecture

Published resources

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q85669. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/112781054. Details
• 'Seidler, Harry (1923-2006)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-525466. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_s.html. Details
• Lewis, Miles ed., Two hundred years of concrete in Australia (North Sydney: Concrete Institute of Australia, 1988), 137 pp. Australia Square p.125. Details