HOUSES, INTERIORS AND PROJECTS
Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler A.R.A.I.A: HOUSES, INTERIORS AND PROJECTS. Sydney: Associated General Publications, 1954. First edition. Square quarto. Red cloth titled in white. Photo illustrated dust jacket. Publishers slipcase. 156 [xx] pp. 300 black and white photographs, elevations and plans. Jacket with trivial shelfwear and a couple of nicks to edges. Paper covered card slipcase pushed at closed edges. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket housed in a very good example of the Publishers slipcase. Rare.
10 x 8.5 hardcover book with 176 pages and 300 black and white photographs, elevations and plans.
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.
- Author’s Preface
- Our Heritage In Modern Building
- The Local Picture
- On Design and Material
- The Future
- Projects 1949 – 1954
Includes documentation on the residences in Turramurra (Sydney), Australia [x4]; Northbridge, Newport Beecroft, Gordon, Castlecrag, Pymble, Blakehurst, Canberra, Chatswood, Kurrajong Heights, Palm Beach, Mosman [x3], Cammaray, Quirindi, lane Cove, Whale Beach, Roseville, the Universal House, the Architect’s Studio, the Architectural and Building Exhibition, Exhibition House Model, Ithaca Garden Apartments, Glenvue Apartments—Bondi, Sydney University Student Hostel, Olympic Stadium Melbourne 1956, Olympic Swimming Pool Melbourne 1956, factory in Regents Park and an Office Building in Sydney.
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."