No other architect in Australia's history has been as internationally influential or famous as Harry Seidler. This work provides an insight into and an analysis of the designs selected by Seidler to be his most important.
A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of mid- to late-twentieth-century modernist design. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, Australian architect Harry Seidler embarked upon a long series of dramatically innovative and sculptural houses with a rare sensitivity to site, space, and structure. And while these soaring, inspiring houses have been the source of Seidler's fame within architectural circles, this book gives a complete view of this modern master's body of work for the first time. Seidler is now widely acknowledged as a leading member of the postwar generation of modernists and one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century in the southern hemisphere. With commissions not only in Australia but also in Austria, France, Israel, Italy, Mexico, and Hong Kong since establishing his own practice in Sydney in 1948, his work has influenced the course of modernist design into the twenty-first century.
Chronicles the work of the distinguished Australian architect, born in Vienna in 1923. Gives a critical overview of Seidler's architectural development and includes a theoretical statement from him entitled TPlanning and Architecture at the End of Our Century'. Lavishly illustrated with rough sketches, architectural drawings and colour and black-and-white photographs.
Internationally renowned architect Harry Seidler discusses the aims emerging from the United Nations Habitat Conference as they relate both practically and theoretically to major metropolitan and regional growth centres he has developed in Australia. Seidler's planning designs emphasize the "cohesion of the whole" -- harmonizing building forms and landscapes with the age-old concept of pedestrian town centres.
El arquitecto Harry Seidler se ha pasado mas de 50 años viajando por el globo, fotografiando los mayores logros arquitectónicos desde el 3000 a.c. hasta nuestros días.
No other architect in Australia's history has been as internationally influential or famous as Harry Seidler. This work provides an insight into and an analysis of the designs selected by Seidler to be his most important.
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