Widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading architects of the modern movement, Austrian-born Harry Seidler studied under architecture greats such as Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at the Harvard School of Design, and later worked with Alvar Aalto in Boston, and Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro.

Seidler is possibly best known for his first house – the Rose Seidler House, which his parents commissioned him to design in 1948, soon after emigrating to Sydney from USA.  The house closely followed the principles of the Bauhaus, and was revolutionary in Australia at the time.

He was a founding member of the AAA (Australian Architecture Association) and has won numerous awards including the RAIA Gold Medal in 1976, and the RIBA Gold Medal in 1996.

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