Many of Australia’s leading architects of the modern movement designed houses and buildings in Canberra. Along with a number of important local architects, they played a key role in the development of the city during the Twentieth Century.

The biographies

Here are some brief biographies of the architects you will encounter while reading about Canberra’s modernist houses—from little-known locals to Australia’s pioneering modernists.

• Sydney Ancher
• Robin Boyd
• Ric Butt
• Michael Dysart
• Roy Grounds
• Malcolm Moir
• Kenneth Oliphant
• Harry Seidler
• Enrico Taglietti
• Laurie Virr