Harry Seidler

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Harry Seidler (right) with Walter Gropius in Sydney 1954

Harry Seidler (born June 25, 1923 in Vienna , † March 9, 2006 in Sydney ) was an Austrian- born Australian architect .

Life

Harry Seidler: High-rise Neue Donau Vienna (2002)
Rose Seidler House , Wahroonga, Sydney, 1948–50

Seidler was born in Vienna in 1923 as the son of a textile manufacturer. In 1938 his Jewish family had to flee under the National Socialist regime and emigrated to Great Britain.

Here he attended the Cambridgeshire Technical College. He was shipped to Canada as an enemy alien ; upon his release, he studied at the University of Manitoba and the Harvard Graduate School of Design . In 1945 at Harvard he met Marcel Breuer , Josef Albers and Walter Gropius ; he became a master student of the Bauhaus founder Gropius. In 1946 he studied design with the former Bauhaus teacher Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina . For a short time he worked for Marcel Breuer in New York .

After completing his studies, he worked with Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro . In 1948 he moved in with his parents, who had meanwhile settled in Sydney. In 1949 he opened his own architecture office there. Since 1976 he has been visiting professor at universities in Australia, the USA and Europe. In 2000 he became an honorary professor at the University of Sydney .

His first building project, a house for his parents, the Rose Seidler House , which was built between 1948 and 1950 in the northern suburbs of Sydney, caused a stir at the time. Today the building and its original furnishings are a museum owned by the Foundation for Historic Houses of New South Wales.

Seidler's life's work includes many important buildings in Australia, primarily in his adopted city of Sydney. He also left his architectural traces in Mexico and in later years in his native Austria, where he built the Neue Donau residential park in Vienna in 1993 and the Neue Donau high-rise in 2002 .

Seidler worked as an architect until he had a stroke in April 2005. He died at the age of 82 in his home in Killara, north of Sydney. He left behind his wife Penelope, whom he married in 1959, as well as their son Timothy and daughter Polly.

Awards

Work show

office building

Mixed use

sport Center

Ian Thorpe Aquatic Center , Sydney, Ultimo district

Apartments

Single family homes

Quotes

  • “Pension is a foreign word for me. My standard is my former boss Oscar Niemeyer, who still works like the devil at 96. "
  • "Fashion is the enemy of architecture."

Books

  • Internment: The Diaries of Harry Seidler May 1940-October 1941 . Ed. Janis Wilton, transl. From the German: Judith Winternitz. Unwin Hyman, Sydney 1987, ISBN 0868619159
  • The Grand Tour. Travel around the world with an architect's eye . Taschen Verlag 2004, ISBN 3822838713

literature

Web links

Commons : Harry Seidler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://seidler.net.au/index.php?id=98
  2. ^ Decoration of honor in gold for architect Harry Seidler City Hall correspondence from May 20, 2002 (accessed on May 29, 2010)
  3. ^ Stroke: Architect Harry Seidler died in Australia at the age of 82 on news.at on March 9, 2006, accessed on February 6, 2017.
  4. ^ Architect Harry Seidler died on orf.at on March 9, 2006, accessed on February 6, 2017.