ARCHITECTURE FOR THE NEW WORLD
THE WORK OF HARRY SEIDLER
Peter Blake
Peter Blake: ARCHITECTURE FOR THE NEW WORLD. THE WORK OF HARRY SEIDLER. Sydney, New York and Stuttgart: Horwitz, Wittenborn and Karl Kramer Verlag, 1973. First edition. Square quarto. Gray cloth stamped in black. Photographically printed dust jacket. 264 pp. Well illustrated with black and white photographs, elevations and plans. A few color plates. INSCRIBED by Seidler on half-title page. Otherwise, interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Spine crown lightly nicked and top edge of jacket faintly worn. A fine copy in a nearly dust jacket.
10.25 x 11.25 rare hardcover book with 264 pages and well illustrated with black and white photographs, elevations and plans. Ink inscription on half-title page reads To Reggie and Gena / with best wishes / Harry Seidler / Cambridge Jan. '77.
Born in Vienna, Seidler was trained in America in the Bauhaus tradition under some of the world's great masters, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and the painter Josef Albers. The winning of the Sir John Sulman Medal for the first house he built in 1949, established him as a leader in design in Australia and also brought him to public notice as a controversial architect who often had to defend his designs to local government authorities, even in courts of law.
Contents
Introduction by Peter Blake
Structural Systems
Plan Systems
Spatial Systems
Sun Control Systems
Visual Opposition
Flow of Space
Form Systems
Free Form Systems
Recent Work 1960 - 1973
Includes documentation on the Rose Seidler House, Wahroonga (Sydney), Australia; Marcus Seidler House, Turramurra (Sydney), Australia; Meller House, Castlecrag (Sydney), Australia; Hutter House, Turramurra (Sydney), Australia; Williamson House, Mosman (Sydney), Australia; Glass House, Chatswood (Sydney), Australia; Canberra South Bowling Club, Griffith (Canberra), Australia; Ithaca Gardens, Elizabeth Bay (Sydney), Australia; Grimson & Rose Exhibition House, Pennant Hills (Sydney), Australia; Blues Point Tower, McMahons Point (Sydney), Australia; Wood House, Penrith (Sydney), Australia; Australia Square Tower, Sydney, Australia; Ski Lodge, Thredbo, Australia; Muller House, Port Hacking (Sydney), Australia; Rushcutters Bay Apartments, Rushcutters Bay (Sydney), Australia; NSW Housing Commission Apartments, Roseberry (Sydney), Australia; Garran Group Housing, Canberra, Australia; Campbell Group Housing, Canberra, Australia; Arlington Apartments, Edgecliff (Sydney), Australia; Harry and Penelope Seidler House, Killara (Sydney), Australia; Condominium Apartments, Acapulco, Mexico and many others.
From the web site for the Australian Institute of Architects: "Harry Seidler [1923-2006] was arguably Australia's most internationally recognised iconic architect. For 57 years, he has been changing and influencing the shape of architecture in Australia. He is best known for buildings that have changed the skyline of Sydney's CBD and surrounds over the past 45 years. These include Australia Square, the tallest light weight concrete building in the world at the time it was built, the 43-storey Horizon Apartments, and one of the most maligned buildings in Australia - Blues Point Tower. He has lectured extensively at universities in Australia and overseas, and has received a plethora of honours, state, national and international architecture awards."