Harry Seidler dies

Harry Seidler died last night at his Sydney home, aged 82. He is recognised as one of Australia’s leading architects of the modern movement and the first architect in Australia to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus. In a career spanning over 50 years, Seidler designed award-winning buildings in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Darwin, Perth and others in Europe, South America and Asia.

There are good examples of Seidler’s residential and commercial work in Canberra. His first commission outside Sydney (the Bowden House) exhibits his design philosophy of the early period. Medium density housing at Campbell is representative of his post-war international style apartment block developments, while the Lakeview townhouses are a good later example of his emphasis on the geometric curve and quadrant. The large, pre-cast concrete Barton Offices is an important office building located near the Parliamentary Triangle in Barton.

News reports

• RAIA media release
• ABC News Online
• Sydney Morning Herald
• When Harry Met Sydney | Elizabeth Farrelly
• Sydney Morning Herald image gallery

Seidler houses profiled on this site

• Bowden House, 11 Northcote Crescent, Deakin (1951-52)
• Campbell Group Housing, Blamey Crescent, Campbell (1964)
• ‘Lakeview’, 127 Hopetoun Circuit, Yarralumla (1982)